Qualla: 2024 Enga Landslide https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/j/c/2024-enga-landslide-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 2024 Enga Landslide https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide 2024 Enga Landslide: Introduction https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. At about three in the morning on 24 May 2024, while most of Kaokalam and its neighbouring hamlets slept, a slab of Mount Mungalo sheared free and slid down onto the villages below. Rescuers who reached the site by helicopter found a debris field roughly the size of three or four football pitches, stacked in places several storeys deep. There was almost nothing left to dig through. Estimates of the dead quickly climbed past 670, a figure Papua New Guinea's authorities warned was still conservative because entire households had vanished without trace beneath the rubble.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/j/c/2024-enga-landslide-wp/rpjc-2024-enga-landslide-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 2024 Enga Landslide: A Mountain That Let Go https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kaokalam sits in Maip Mulitaka, a remote corner of Enga Province high in the central cordillera of Papua New Guinea. The country straddles one of the most geologically restless junctions on Earth, where the Australian and Pacific plates grind against each other, and its highland ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/j/c/2024-enga-landslide-wp/rpjc-2024-enga-landslide-a-mountain-that-let-go.mp3 0:06 2 full 2024 Enga Landslide: Rescuers on a Moving Slope https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Only helicopters could reach Kaokalam in those first days. Roads were gone or blocked by secondary slides, and the debris itself was still alive - shifting underfoot, with three buried streams pooling beneath it and saturating the ground further. Local villagers were the first re...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/j/c/2024-enga-landslide-wp/rpjc-2024-enga-landslide-rescuers-on-a-moving-slope.mp3 0:06 3 full 2024 Enga Landslide: A Country Calls for Help https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 26 May, Papua New Guinea made a formal request for international assistance. The response came fast and from many directions. Australia pledged up to AU$4.5 million and sent a disaster response team alongside the Australian Defence Force and Queensland Fire and Emergency Servi...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/j/c/2024-enga-landslide-wp/rpjc-2024-enga-landslide-a-country-calls-for-help.mp3 0:06 4 full 2024 Enga Landslide: Convoys Through a Dangerous Country https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. Getting help to the site meant more than negotiating landslides. Humanitarian convoys leaving the provincial capital of Wabag had to pass through Tambitanis, where intertribal clashes had killed eight people and burned 35 homes and businesses earlier that year. The Defence Force ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/j/c/2024-enga-landslide-wp/rpjc-2024-enga-landslide-convoys-through-a-dangerous-country.mp3 0:06 5 full 2024 Enga Landslide: When the Digging Stops https://qualla.com/2024-enga-landslide/ Photo credit Carport, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 31 May, Marape flew to the site, stood on the unstable debris, and pledged twenty million kina toward reconstruction. Parliament held a minute of silence. Condolences arrived from Governor-General Bob Dadae and from King Charles III. Then, on 5 June, the military announced tha...

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