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Triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake, largest of several landslides [81] 27 Jul 1949 Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Washington: 1.5 to 2.3 MCM 0 The landslide near the mouth of Hawk Creek, about 35 miles (56 km) north of Grand Coulee Dam, entered the lake and generated a 65-foot (20 m) tsunami that struck the town of Lincoln. The wave was noted ...
Nuʻuanu Slide is seen near the center top in this bathymetry image of the Hawaiian archipelago, Nuʻuanu Slide or Nuʻuanu Debris Avalanche is the largest of seventeen known submarine landslides around the Hawaiian Islands and at 200 kilometers (124 mi) in length, one of the largest landslides on Earth.
Global multihazard mortality risks and distribution (2005) for cyclones, drought, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes (excluding heat waves, snowstorms, and other deadly hazards). A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the ...
Rhine cutting through Flims rockslide debris. The Flims rockslide happened about 10,000 years ago (8000 BC) in eastern Switzerland. It is the largest known landslide in the Alps, [1] [2] and the biggest worldwide whose effects are still visible, moving some 12 km 3 (2.9 cu mi) of rock, about 300 times that of the historic Swiss Goldau landslide.
A massive landslide in remote Greenland sent Earth vibrating for nine straight days, unleashing a mysterious seismic signal that left scientists scrambling for answers.. The landslide, which took ...
The debris released was estimated by the study as being between 5 and 10 times the volume of the initial rockfall, a bulking ratio comparable with that of other events such as the September 2002 Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide (estimated ratio between 5 and 10), the November 1987 Parraguirre landslide (est. ratio 2.5) and the May 1970 Huascarán ...
It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious vibration ...
The rapidly accelerating complex of landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes has created an unforeseen outcome: a new coastline as the seafloor is pushed upward. ... the largest and most active. Land ...