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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 […]

Landslide toll in Zhouqu county, Gansu Province, China
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Flooding and Landslides in China’s Gansu Province, Zhouqu County

August 16, 2010 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Flooding and Landslides in China’s Gansu Province, Zhouqu County

Over the past week there has been devastating flooding and landslides in the Gansu Province of China, particularly in Zhouqu county.  According to BBC, the latest death toll numbers are at 1,239.  Here are some […]

Location of Storegga Landslide
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Huge Undersea Landslide Caused Tsunami in Great Britain, Norway

May 8, 2015 rockman Geologic Hazards Comments Off on Huge Undersea Landslide Caused Tsunami in Great Britain, Norway

The largest known undersea landslide occurred over 8,000 years ago off the coast of Norway. The volume of material that moved is mind-blowing, over 4.6 X 1012 cubic yards or 850 cubic miles! Known as […]