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Using satellite imagery (shown above) to study the effects of a 2019 landslide on the Amalia Glacier in Patagonia, a University of Minnesota-led research team found the landslide helped stabilize the glacier and caused it to grow by about 1,000 meters over the last three years. Photo credit: Max Van Wyk de Vries

Landslides can have a major impact on glacier melt and movement

Geology Page - May 6, 2022

Scientists identified flank instability at Pacaya, an active volcano in Guatemala. Credit: Kirsten Stephens/Penn State

Scientists identify flank instability at a volcano with history of collapse

The figure shows a portion of the Mafia mega-slide imaged by a time-slice extracted from 3-D seismic reflection data (coherence attribute). Credit: Data courtesy of Royal Dutch Shell

Evidence from one of Earth’s biggest underwater landslides ever sheds light on East African rifting

The March 22, 2014 SR530 landslide near Oso, Washington

New study of the 2014 Oso landslide

Himalaya

Minerals in mountain rivers tell the story of landslide activity upstream

Map of landslide

Deadly Indonesian tsunami was unleashed by landslide in Palu Bay, study...

Geology Page - December 18, 2018

Deposits from a landslide outside Pahrump, Nevada.

Nobody wins in a landslide

Geology Page - November 7, 2018

Photograph panorama looking over the devastation of the Kedarnath landslide, June 2013, Uttarakhand state, India.

Landslides triggered by human activity on the rise

Geology Page - August 24, 2018

New research predicts landslide boundaries two weeks before they happen

Geology Page - August 16, 2018

The Stanton Landslide (center middle distance) is over 800 meters across and has left an obvious scar in the hillside above the deposit.

Landslide modeling after Kaikoura Quake provides data to first responders

Geology Page - March 26, 2018

Schematic evolution of retrogressive slope failure due to overpressured gas below the gas haydrate stability zone (GHSZ)

Stable gas hydrates can trigger landslides

Geology Page - February 22, 2018

This image from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover shows the Amargosa Valley, on the slopes leading up to Mount Sharp on Mars

Ice shapes the landslide landscape on Mars

Geology Page - November 22, 2017

Changing climate to bring more landslides on logged land

Geology Page - November 9, 2017

Can satellites be used as an early warning system for landslides?

Geology Page - July 3, 2017

Distant earthquakes can cause underwater landslides

Geology Page - June 28, 2017

Earthquake in Greenland triggers fatal landslide-induced tsunami

Geology Page - June 26, 2017

Engineers shine light on deadly landslide

Geology Page - April 26, 2017

Hard rocks from Himalaya raise flood risk for millions

Geology Page - April 26, 2017

Why is South America being hit by deadly landslides?

Geology Page - April 5, 2017

Largest undersea landslide revealed on the Great Barrier Reef

Geology Page - February 8, 2017

Researchers map New Zealand landslides with satellites, drones, helicopters, hiking boots

Geology Page - December 13, 2016

Climate change to have ‘little effect’ on common landslides

Geology Page - October 7, 2016

Quest to find the ‘missing physics’ at play in landslides

Geology Page - September 8, 2016

Massive landslide detected in Glacier Bay’s fragile mountains

Geology Page - July 5, 2016

Slowing of landslide flows reflects California’s drying climate

Geology Page - June 2, 2016

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