Landslide Photo Collections

The winter storms of January and February 2005 triggered widespread landslide activity in the Southern California region. On March 16 and 17, 2005, Mark Reid and Jonathan Godt of the U.S. Geological Survey's Landslide Hazards Program and Pam Irvine of the California Geological Survey, performed an aerial reconnaissance to assess the regional distribution of recent landslides and identify areas with exceptional concentrations of landsliding. The aerial reconnaissance extended from the Ventura-Santa Barbara County line to northern San Diego County. The photographs shown provide a preliminary overview of landsliding in the region, but are not a comprehensive inventory of either landslides that occurred that winter season or of damage caused by landslides.