when a lot of wetearth suddenly falls down the side of a hill 〔沿缓坡而下的〕泥石流
Torrential rains caused a massive mudslide.
倾盆大雨造成了大面积的泥石流。
Examples from the Corpus
mudslide• Gaffney was crushed in a mudslide and the shadow of his deathhung darkly over the rest of the production.• Heavyrains on wildfire-stripped hillsides caused mudslides and flooding of homes in San Bernardino on Tuesday.• Five homes there were evacuated because of mudslides.• Some mudslides were reported throughout the region, blocking part of a river and causing some flooding.• More than 30,000 inhabitants were reported to have been affected directly by the mudslide and over 6,000 homes were damaged.• The last major eruption occurred 1,100 years ago, when mudslidescascaded on to areas now inhabited by millions of people.