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A plume of dust at Yosemite National park after a rock slide Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. Photo by National Park Service, Erik Skindrud.
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Rockfall in Yosemite causes hotel evacuation of all 300 guests

August 29, 2009 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Rockfall in Yosemite causes hotel evacuation of all 300 guests

A landslide in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday damaged three cars in the parking lot of the Ahwahnee Hotel and left rocks, one the size of two SUV’s in the parking lot. Park officials evacuated […]

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 […]

Landslide near Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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No quick fix for huge landslide near Jackson Hole, Wyoming

June 7, 2011 rockman Failures Comments Off on No quick fix for huge landslide near Jackson Hole, Wyoming

A huge 35,000 to 40,000 cubic yard landslide has blocked Highway 26/89 for about 300 feet with material about 40 feet high. The slide is about 2000 feet long, terminating in the Snake River. It […]