Landslide Photo Collections

Searchable USGS Photo and Multimedia Archive with Ordering Information

Anzar Road, California, landslide, which occurred in 1998. There was $200,000 DIRECT damages to this house and also, $10 - $12 million in INDIRECT damages. This same landslide severed Pacific Gas And Electic (PG&E) gasline, witch resulted in a 3-day gas interruption to the city of Santa Cruz, CA, which in turn caused a loss of business to city restaurants and other businesses, road repairs to fix damage occurring replacing gasline, and re-lighting several hundred gas pilot lights.

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