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Mudflow

Term · Insurance and risk management · MLC-T-INS-000148

A river of liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas, as when earth is carried by a current of water. Other earth movements, such as landslide, slope failure or a saturated soil mass moving by liquidity down a slope, are not mudflows.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-INS-000148
FieldInsurance and risk management
SubjectNational Flood Insurance Program
ReferencesFloodSmart Flood Insurance Glossary; FEMA Glossary
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-INS-000148",
  "term": "Mudflow",
  "field": "Insurance and risk management",
  "definition": "A river of liquid and flowing mud on the surfaces of normally dry land areas, as when earth is carried by a current of water. Other earth movements, such as landslide, slope failure or a saturated soil mass moving by liquidity down a slope, are not mudflows.",
  "subject": "National Flood Insurance Program",
  "references": [
    "FloodSmart Flood Insurance Glossary",
    "FEMA Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/insurance/mudflow/"
}

Record 148 of 272 in Insurance and risk management terminology (MLC-0106). Request the full dataset.