SEATTLE (AP) — People living in the path of the deadly Oso landslide had virtually no warning before a wall of mud, trees and other debris thundered down the mountain. Some of the homeowners didn’t ...

County information about reunification, evacuation and shelters: 425-388-5088.You are asked to call this number if you are reporting someone missing or unaccounted for, or if you are safe. You are ...

Dozens of fire chiefs, city planners, tribal natural resource managers and other officials from across Southeast Alaska were set to gather last month for a second annual landslide conference. But that ...

FEMA officials inspect a construction vehicle that went off the road on a section that had just been cleared of 15 feet of dirt from a landslide in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, on Feb. 13, 2018. (FEMA/K ...

By modeling this age-roughness relationship, with information from landslides dated by other means such as carbon dating, researchers can estimate when a particular landslide took place. For the ...

UBC graduate students trained computers to “read” news articles about landslides on Reddit to bolster a NASA database, which could improve predictions of when and where these natural disasters will ...

In an instant, a landslide can level a home or even an entire community. Landslides aren't always slow-moving, avoidable events. Debris flows — a dangerous combination of earth, debris and water that ...

Landslide season has just started, spanning from November to March most years. Washington state is one of the most landslide-prone states in the U.S., according to the state Department of Natural ...

Rancho Palos Verdes will permanently ban future residential development in its landslide area beginning next month, as the city continues dealing with the fallout from unprecedented land movement ...

That’s left states and communities to put together a patchwork of maps showing landslide hazards. In some cases, they are discovering that more buildings than previously thought are sitting on ...