Landslide Photo Collections

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  • Photo of rock fall in Afternoon Creek, Skagit River, Washington. Washington Dept. of Washington (WSDOT) has successfully placed some monitoring equipment along Highway 20 in Whatcom County, the site of Sunday\'s two to three million cubic yard rockslide, November 2003. Photos by Washington Dept. of Washington.
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  • Hazard zones for lahars, lava flows, and pyroclastic flows from Mount Rainier (Hoblitt and others, 1998; U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-428). The map shows areas that could be inundated if events similar in size to those of the past occurred today. Lahar hazard is not equal in all valleys. Puyallup Valley is the valley most susceptible to lahars caused by flank collapse. Risk to individual drainages will be refined as scientists learn more about the volcano.
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  • On Sept. 12, 2005 a boulder, estimated to weigh 10 tons, broke loose, skidded down and bounced onto the shoulder of westbound I-90 several miles west of the summit of Snoqualmie Pass, Washington. Fortunately, no traffic incident resulted. This comes after a rockfall slide, in the same vicinity, caused three fatalities on Sunday, Sept. 11. Photos by Washington Department of Transportation.
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  • Photo of rock fall in Afternoon Creek, Skagit River, Washington. Washington Dept. of Washington (WSDOT) has successfully placed some monitoring equipment along Highway 20 in Whatcom County, the site of Sunday\'s two to three million cubic yard rockslide, November 2003. Photos by Washington Dept. of Washington.
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  • Three large slides affected US 101 on Hood Canal. Mud and tree debris blocked 1,800 feet of the highway temporarily, in 1999.
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  • Photo of rock fall in Afternoon Creek, Skagit River, Washington. Washington Dept. of Washington (WSDOT) has successfully placed some monitoring equipment along Highway 20 in Whatcom County, the site of Sunday\'s two to three million cubic yard rockslide, November 2003. Photos by Washington Dept. of Washington.
    cascadesrock...
  • On Sept. 12, 2005 a boulder, estimated to weigh 10 tons, broke loose, skidded down and bounced onto the shoulder of westbound I-90 several miles west of the summit of Snoqualmie Pass, Washington. Fortunately, no traffic incident resulted. This comes after a rockfall slide, in the same vicinity, caused three fatalities on Sunday, Sept. 11. Photos by Washington Department of Transportation.
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  • Melting snow and ice on the north flank of Washington\'s Mount St. Helens triggered this lahar (an Indonesian term for a \"volcanic debris flow\"), which rapidly traveled down the flanks of the mountain with the North Fork of the Toutle River. The melting snow and Ice resulted from the 1982 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Photo by Tom Casadevall, USGS.
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  • Photos of rock fall in Afternoon Creek, Skagit River, Washington. Washington Dept. of Washington (WSDOT) has successfully placed some monitoring equipment along Highway 20 in Whatcom County, the site of Sunday\'s two to three million cubic yard rockslide, November 2003. Photos by Washington Dept. of Washington.
    cascadesrock...
  • On Sept. 12, 2005 a boulder, estimated to weigh 10 tons, broke loose, skidded down and bounced onto the shoulder of westbound I-90 several miles west of the summit of Snoqualmie Pass, Washington. Fortunately, no traffic incident resulted. This comes after a rockfall slide, in the same vicinity, caused three fatalities on Sunday, Sept. 11. Photos by Washington Department of Transportation.
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  • Photos of rock fall in Afternoon Creek, Skagit River, Washington. Washington Dept. of Washington (WSDOT) has successfully placed some monitoring equipment along Highway 20 in Whatcom County, the site of Sunday\'s two to three million cubic yard rockslide, November 2003. Photos by Washington Dept. of Washington.
    cascadesrock...
  • Downstream view of the North Fork Toutle River valley, north and west of St. Helens, shows part of the nearly 2/3 cubic miles (2.3 cubic kilometers) of debris avalanche that slid from the volcano on May 18, 1980. This is enough material to cover Washington, D.C. to a depth of 14 feet (4 meters). The avalanche traveled approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers) downstream at a velocity exceeding 150 miles per hour (240 km/hr). It left behind a hummocky deposit with an average thickness of 150 feet (45 meters) and a maximum thickness of 600 feet (180 meters). Photo by Lyn Topinka, November 30, 1983, USGS. For more information please see: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/DebrisAval/description_msh_debris_aval.htm.
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  • Perkins Lane, Magnolia Bluff, 1996. One of the hardest hit areas during the winter of 1996 was Perkins Lane along Magnolia Bluff in Seattle. For information on this photo please see: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/landslides/index.html
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  • Photo of a late January, 2006 landslide that blocked the North Fork Stillaguamish River located midway between Darrington and Arlington, Washington. 300 yards of steep hillside collapsed, sending several hundred thousdand cubic yards of soil/mud/trees into the river. (Photo courtesy of Snohomish County, WA Search and Rescue)
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  • This photo shows a landslide in marine sediments over basalt, extending across Washington State Highway 4 into the Columbia River, west of Stella, Washington. During the winter storms of February 1996, landslides and debris flows occurred in the northwestern United States. Areas of highest rainfall intensities were centered along the Oregon-Washington border. Photo by R.L. Schuster, USGS.
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  • Rolling Bay, east side of Bainbridge Island, Washington. Tragedy struck on January 19th, 1997. Within three seconds, 2,000 tons of rock, trees, and soil crushed this home, killing all four family members. Rolling Bay is similar to numerous other beach developments around Puget Sound where homes were constructed at the toe of steep coastal bluffs. Landslides periodically carry these homes onto the beach. Separate landslides also destroyed other homes at Rolling Bay in April, 1996, and in March 1997. For information on this photo please see: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/landslides/index.html
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