How to say "landslide" in Japanese

• 地すべりじすべりCommon
  nounA landslide in the geological sense: a mass of soil and rock sliding down a slope, often slowly. The term used in earth science and disaster prevention, as when heavy rain weakens a hillside.
  あの地滑じすべり事故じこは多おおくの不幸ふこうを生うんだ。↗

  That landslide produced a lot of misery.
• 山崩れやまくずれCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbA landslide pictured as a collapse: a mountainside or steep slope caving in, often suddenly after heavy rain. It fits scenes of a mountain giving way rather than slow ground movement.

Both describe earth moving downhill: 「地すべり」 is the geological term for ground sliding down a slope, while 「山崩れ」 pictures a mountainside collapsing; neither is used for an election landslide.

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• 地すべりじすべりlandslide
• 山崩れやまくずれlandslide
• 崖崩れがけくずれlandslide
• 土砂崩れどしゃくずれlandslide
• 山津波やまつなみlandslide
• 土石流どせきりゅうavalanche of earth and rocks