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On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.

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On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. An entire coffee farm of 30 hectares disappeared. Inhabitants were scared by loud rumbling underground and in the mountain and evacuated in the dark just before the landslide, there were no fatalities. The region of Santa Bárbara continued to be susceptible for weeks afterwards, with hundreds of fresh landslides weeks after the hurricanes.