id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016222-dltsdqcm Siegel, Frederic R. Lessening the Impacts from Non-Tectonic (Natural) Hazards and Triggered Events 2016-06-24 .txt text/plain 7136 318 56 First, depending on the location of a fl ooding river channel, rushing water can undermine bank material or erode base of valley walls causing landslides that could affect people living in the threatened areas. Depending on the mass being moved, an avalanche can kill people, and damage or destroy structures and infrastructure (homes, recreational areas, bridges, tunnels [block road and/or railway movement]), pipes and utility lines (water, natural gas, electricity), and put workmen maintaining an infrastructure at risk. Subsidence of an area of the Earth's surface is the result of the continuous extraction of large volumes of groundwater or petroleum from underlying sedimentary rocks without recharge or replenishment of fl uids. The Ebola epidemic shows how vulnerable many countries/regions are because of an inadequate health infrastructure that is not prepared to cope with a disease once identifi ed, its spread, and the care and treatment of large numbers of infected people. ./cache/cord-016222-dltsdqcm.txt ./txt/cord-016222-dltsdqcm.txt