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What’s the difference between a landslide and an avalanche?

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Landslides is a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path while avalanche is a large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

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