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A major landslide occurred 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Oso, Washington, United States, on March 22, 2014, at 10:37 a.m. local time.A portion of an unstable hill collapsed, sending mud and debris to the south across the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, engulfing a rural neighborhood, and covering an area of approximately 1 square mile (2.6 km 2).
22 Mar 2014 Oso, Washington, United States 2014 Oso mudslide: 10 MCM (early estimate) 43 49 structures destroyed or affected [165] [166] 2 May 2014 Argo District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan: 2014 Badakhshan mudslides: 350–2,700 reported
Oso is located at (48.272281, −121.919235 The United States Census Bureau defines the Oso CDP as extending north from the river to the Skagit County border. It has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km 2 ), of which, 3.6 square miles (9.4 km 2 ) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2 ) of it (2.43%) is water.
The Oso Landslide Memorial is a memorial for the 43 victims of the Oso landslide in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located along State Route 530 and the Whitehorse Trail east of Oso .
The Oso disaster of March 2014 was a landslide that caused 43 fatalities in Oso, Washington, US. [26] Delayed consequences of landslides can arise from the formation of landslide dams, as at Thistle, Utah, in April 1983. [27] [28] Volcano flanks can become over-steep resulting in instability and mass wasting.
Devil's Slide, an ongoing landslide in San Mateo County, California; 2011 Rio de Janeiro landslide in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 11 January 2011, causing 610 deaths. [62] 2014 Pune landslide, in Pune, India. 2014 Oso mudslide, in Oso, Washington; 2017 Mocoa landslide, in Mocoa, Colombia; 2022 Ischia landslide; 2024 Gofa landslides, in Gofa, Ethiopia
The trail, 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Oso, passes a memorial to victims of the 2014 Oso mudslide, which had destroyed a section of the trail's corridor. [3] [4] From Oso continuing towards Darrington, the Whitehorse Trail passes through the historic towns of Fortson and Hazel, and the modern community of Swede Heaven, which hosts a trailhead. [4]
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