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  2. Landslide - Wikipedia

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    A landslide in which the sliding surface is located within the soil mantle or weathered bedrock (typically to a depth from few decimeters to some meters) is called a shallow landslide. Debris slides and debris flows are usually shallow. Shallow landslides can often happen in areas that have slopes with high permeable soils on top of low ...

  3. Submarine landslide - Wikipedia

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    Submarine landslides are marine landslides that transport sediment across the continental shelf and into the deep ocean. A submarine landslide is initiated when the downwards driving stress (gravity and other factors) exceeds the resisting stress of the seafloor slope material, causing movements along one or more concave to planar rupture surfaces.

  4. A Southern California coastal area long prone to landslides continues to inch toward the ocean at a rising speed posing danger to human life and infrastructure, a new NASA report shows.. The Palos ...

  5. Nuʻuanu Slide - Wikipedia

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    It broke from the eastern or windward side of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi between 1 and 1.5 million years ago and lies in the Pacific Ocean north of Molokaʻi. [1] [2] At the time of collapse, Oʻahu was part of the conglomerate island Maui Nui, elevated above the ocean from lower sea levels, and contained the Koʻolau Volcano. The eastern half of the ...

  6. Rancho Palos Verdes landslide is creating a new beach. 'It's ...

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    The new shoreline is about 250 feet farther out to sea after parts of the seafloor moved an estimated 10 feet vertically, he said, a "manifestation of this bigger, deeper, longer movement of the ...

  7. Storegga Slide - Wikipedia

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    Storegga (Norwegian: Great Edge) is located at the edge of Norway's continental shelf in the Norwegian Sea, 100 km (62 mi) north-west of the Møre coast. In around 6200 BCE, structural failures of the shelf caused three underwater landslides, which triggered very large tsunamis in the North Atlantic Ocean.

  8. List of landslides - Wikipedia

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    Date Place Name/article Position Volume Comments Sources 1.4 Ma off northern Molokai, Hawaii: Wailau Slide 2,500 km 3: The northern third of East Molokai Volcano collapsed suddenly into the Pacific Ocean in a 25-mile (40 km) wide landslide with a 120-mile (193 km) run-out that climbed uphill 900 feet (274 m) from the Hawaiian Trough over the last 80 miles (130 km).

  9. WATCH: 8 Homes Swept into the Sea After Massive Landslide in ...

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    A number of homes in northern Norway collapsed into the sea on Wednesday due to a powerful landslide. Around 4 p.m. local time, authorities first received reports of the incident in Alta, a town ...