Landslide Photo Collections

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Usoy Village was destroyed, causing 54 deaths. The rockslide dammed the Murgab River, impounding 65-km- long Lake Sarez,which presently still exists.

  • Satellite photograph of the Usoi dam in eastern Tajikistan.  It is a natural dam formed by a massive landslide which blocked the Bartang valley during an earthquake in 1911.  Photograph by Dr. E. DiBiagio, Norwegian Geotechnical Institue, Oslo, Norway.
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  • Lake Suarez, formed by the Usoi Landslide in 1911.  Photograph from Wikipedia Commons:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usoi.jpg
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