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COOLR landslide points (in orange) and NASA landslide susceptibility (blue = low susceptibility, red = high susceptibility), in Central America. Image by NASA.
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NASA Building Crowd-sourced Landslide Inventory

July 15, 2019 rockman Geologic Hazards, News Comments Off on NASA Building Crowd-sourced Landslide Inventory

NASA scientists are building an open global inventory of landslides with the goal of improving predictive models for landslides. The data is crowd-sourced and some are scraped from news sources as well.  Anyone can download […]

Liquefaction damage in Christchurch, New Zealand
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Christchurch liquefaction prone soils make rebuilding difficult |

September 20, 2011 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Christchurch liquefaction prone soils make rebuilding difficult |

This article notes that the combination of shallow water table and crummy soils make it difficult to rebuild safely in the Christchurch, New Zealand business district. Another interesting item mentioned in the article is that […]

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Landslide Occurs in Residential La Jolla California

October 4, 2007 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Landslide Occurs in Residential La Jolla California

A landslide occured about 9am PT yesterday in a residential neighborhood of La Jolla, just north of San Diego. No injuries have been reported, but estimates are that 2,500 people are without either power or gas because of toppled power lines and ruptured gas lines. The Soledad Mountain Road is currently impassable. I’ll update this post as more information becomes available. In the mean time, check out some video and a  location map after the break.

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