Landslide Photo Collections

Searchable USGS Photo and Multimedia Archive with Ordering Information

These are photos from around the world, not organized by event

  • Earthquake-induced landslide damage to a house built on artificial fill, after the 2004, Niigata Prefecture, Japan earthquake. Photo by Prof. Kamai, Kyoto Univ., Japan.
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  • The 2001 El Salvador earthquake-induced landslide located in a neighborhood near San Salvador, Santa Tecla. Photo by Ed Harp, USGS - for more information and photos please see this publication: http://landslides.usgs.gov/research/other/centralamerica.php.
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  • 1994 Debris flows at the village of Irlanda, southwestern Colombia. The main flow followed the R’o Paez (right-side of photo); smaller flows entered from valley wall at the left. Homes, a school, and other buildings were destroyed in Irlanda (center and foreground). Photo by U.S. Geological Survey photo.
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  • Landslide damage to the Pan American Highway, through El Salvador, 2003. Photo by Ed Harp, USGS.
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  • This photo with diagram shows the characteristics of the deadly debris flow that occurred in northern Venezuela in 1999. Photo and diagram by Matt Larsen, USGS.
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  • The crater of Las Casitas volcano in Nicaragua, collapsed at 11 am on Friday, October 30, 1998, causing a mudslide that swept down the side of the volcano obliterating all in its path. Over 2500 people in small villages were killed at the onset and there are upwards of 3000 people dead at the last count.
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