The Pantai Remis landslide was a rock fall and flood that occurred on 21 October 1993, near Pantai Remis in Perak,

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. The landslide took place in an abandoned

open cast Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a borrow. This form of minin ...

tin Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from la, stannum) and atomic number 50. Tin is a silvery-coloured metal. Tin is soft enough to be cut with little force and a bar of tin can be bent by hand with little effort. When bent, t ...

mine (in a region of the state well known for its tin mining industry) close to the

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. Video footage shows the rapid collapse of the working face closest the sea, allowing complete flooding of the mine and forming a new

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measuring approximately .

YouTube video

A video of the event was uploaded to YouTube on 17 May 2007. The accompanying description in Cantonese reads:

"That year, I received a call by the owner of a tin mine. He said that his mine, which had been running for a few decades, was about to collapse. I rushed to the scene with my video camera and waited for a few hours. Finally, I took this valuable footage. Although the footage lasted only a few minutes, it is horribly exciting enough. I hope that this video can let you all appreciate the consequence of ruining our environment".

Prof. Dave Petley, the Wilson Chair in Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at the

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, England, and founder and director of the International Landslide Centre, described the recording as the best landslide video he had ever seen, despite its poor resolution.

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Video of the eventUpscaled video of the eventGoogle Maps image of the coveOpenStreetMap image of the cove
1993 mining disasters Landslides in Malaysia 1993 in Malaysia Manjung District Megafloods Landslides in 1993 1993 disasters in Malaysia {{Malaysia-hist-stub