Camped on an island in Southeast Alaska a few mornings ago, Sasha Calvey heard a commotion outside her tent. “(On Aug. 10) at 5:45 a.m., I woke to a loud roar of rushing water,” the 25-year-old ...

In the decade since the Oso landslide, technicians have meticulously mapped the state of Washington, scanning thousands of square miles of terrain, precise nearly to the inch, part of efforts to ...

The landslides that have forced authorities to shut off power and gas to hundreds of homes in Rancho Palos Verdes over the last two months highlight the risk of living on land susceptible to shifting ...

As urban centers in mountainous regions grow, more people are driven to build on steeper slopes prone to slow-moving landslides, a new study finds. Slow-moving landslides are frequently excluded from ...

Dr. Scott Burns will give a talk entitled "Lessons Learned from Landslides" at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Eden Hall Room 1. Burns is a professor of geology at ...

Landslide damages California homes after heavy rains in 2023. The U.S. Geological Survey is investing $1 million in a new plan to mitigate landslides that result in $1 billion in annual economic costs ...

The August 5 disaster in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand should be a grim reminder of how unregulated human activities in the name of development can invite the wrath of nature. It was caused by a ...

Using data collected from a 2022 magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Luding County in China's Sichuan Province, researchers tested whether Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations could be used ...

Heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Helene triggered more landslides than state officials had seen in total in the two prior decades, the official in charge of mapping risk told a ...