rockslide

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"It was horrible, like an earthquake," said Sarghali Gharib, who lost eight members of his family in the rockslide -- five sisters, a sister-in-law and her two children.

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  1. noun The usually rapid downward movement of newly detached segments of bedrock.
  2. noun The rock mass that has reached its current position through such a movement.

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  • Picking through rocks at the bottom of a giant rockslide, at the bottom of a canyon that makes the Grand Canyon look like a drainage ditch. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • "Two were killed by a rockslide, and one had rockcat claw marks on the bones The fourth Murder," he said. —  GEORGE R
  • At the end of the ridge was a rockslide, a rough trail leading down. —  No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
  • Yosemite Valley cabins lost to rockslide should be replaced People visiting Yosemite Valley this year -- or next, or for the foreseeable future -- are going to find it more difficult to find overnight lodging. —  Merced Sun-Star: front
  • KUTV -- A rockslide is causing a major road closure up Provo Canyon. —  2News Local News
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