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UrduLand beneath the city in Los Angeles County has been slowly shifting for decades, a peninsula that is especially vulnerable to wind and weather that also happens to sit on a fault line. …
Tag: Landslides
UAlbany Expert: Powerful Atmospheric River Brings Record Rainfall to California
ALBANY, N.Y. (Feb. 7, 2024) — After days of heavy rainfall in California, a powerful atmospheric river continues to make its way through the state and head eastward. Record rainfall totals as high as 10 inches or more have brought…
New dates for landslides reveal past Seattle fault earthquakes
New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago—and may also hold traces of older earthquakes along the fault.
UAH researchers use Earth observations to identify damage, impacts from earthquakes in Turkey
The country of Turkey is still reeling from a 7.8 and a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and thousands of aftershocks that occurred in February, causing widespread destruction to infrastructure and human life.
Study finds that landslides can have a major impact on glacier melt and movement
Using satellite imagery to study the effects of a 2019 landslide on the Amalia Glacier in Patagonia, a University of Minnesota-led research team found the landslide helped stabilize the glacier and caused it to grow by about 1,000 meters over the last three years.
Geological engineers create landslide atlas of Kerala, India
The Landslide Atlas of Kerala sets a new standard for determining risk in a landslide-prone region and will help the residents and policymakers of the state make decisions to better mitigate life-threatening disasters.
Simple actions can help people survive landslides
Simple actions can dramatically improve a person’s chances of surviving a landslide, show records from 38 landslides in the U.S. and around the world. People who survived landslides tended to have moved upstairs or to higher ground, among other key actions.
Most landslides in western Oregon triggered by heavy rainfall, not big earthquakes
Deep-seated landslides in the central Oregon Coast Range are triggered mostly by rainfall, not by large offshore earthquakes.
The story behind a uniquely dark, wetland soil
Areas where landslides are common make hydric soil identification tricky