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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).
A landslide closed Chuckanut Drive near Clayton Beach in Whatcom County on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Washington State Department of Transportation/Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald
The Puget Sound faults under the heavily populated Puget Sound region (Puget Lowland) of Washington state form a regional complex of interrelated seismogenic (earthquake-causing) geologic faults. These include (from north to south, see map) the: Devils Mountain Fault; Strawberry Point and Utsalady Point faults; Southern Whidbey Island Fault (SWIF)
The map offers insights into preparedness for homeowners and communities in high-risk areas and highlights regions where further landslide mapping and research are needed.
2024 United States landslide risk map. ... in a modestly eroded state. [56] The landslide around 200 BC which ... Oso, Washington; 2017 Mocoa landslide ...
Landslides occur around the world and have helped shape the Earth as we know it. The landslide that destroyed a rural neighborhood and claimed 43 lives in Oso, northeast of Seattle, 10 years ago ...
FEMA and the state of Washington offered to buy out 127 homeowners at 30 cents on the dollar. This was the second largest landslide disaster in US history involving homes on a landslide. The largest was the 1956 Portuguese Bend landslide in Palos Verdes Hills of Southern California, when 130 homes were destroyed. [1]
Seattle's waterfront faces similar risk The Seattle Fault (and the related Tacoma Fault) is not the only source of earthquake hazard in the Puget Lowland. Other faults in the near surface continental crust, such as the South Whidbey Island Fault (near Everett), and the yet to be studied Olympia Fault (near Olympia), though historically ...