Landslide Photo Collections

Searchable USGS Photo and Multimedia Archive with Ordering Information

This high-velocity rockslide slid into Vajont Reservoir and caused 100-m waves to overtop Vajont Dam. The losses were $200 million, in 1963 dollars, and 2,000 people were killed.

  • The Vajont landslide looking from upstream (image thanks to Professor E. Bromhead, University of Kingston)
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  • Vajont Reservoir, Italy, after the 1963 landslide caused the wave that overtopped the dam.
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  • A photograph of Longarone, Italy after the disastrous wave crashed into the town. Photograph by U.S. Army (SETAF).
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  • The town of Longarone, Italy before the landslide, 1963. Photograph by the Vajont Survivor's Committee.
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  • The town of Longarone after the dam was overtopped by a giant waved, caused by a landslide in the reservoir. Photograph by Vajont Survivor's Committee.
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