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Landslide vs Earthflow - What's the difference?

landslide | earthflow |

As nouns the difference between landslide and earthflow

is that landslide is a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path while earthflow is a downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.

landslide

Noun

(en noun)
  • A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
  • A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
  • The candidate won by a landslide .

    Synonyms

    * (natural disaster) earthfall, landslip

    See also

    * (natural disaster) avalanche, earthquake, mudslide * (politics) shoo-in

    earthflow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A downslope viscous flow of fine-grained materials that have been saturated with water, moving under the pull of gravity.
  • See also

    * mudflow * lahar