Landslides are a common hazard in the US. In fact, nearly 44% of the country could experience one, potentially catastrophically. Our new national landslide susceptibility map shows where they're most ...

North Carolina's hazard mapping program is trying to better predict which landslide-prone places face threats in future storms. The state's geological survey responded to more slides after Helene than ...

I've only seen some limited efforts on the local level in the past. The city of Seattle has been collecting landslide data since 1890, so they have a wonderful data bank of historical land-movement ...

Unlike the warning systems and elaborate maps that help residents and officials prepare for natural disasters such as floods and hurricanes, there’s no national system to monitor slide activity and no ...

Oregon state geologists released brand new interactive maps showing where landslides are more likely to happen in the Columbia River Gorge. And they say the areas burned by the Eagle Creek Fire are ...

James and Bill Montivér had just finished boxing up their home on a steep road in Ketchikan, a fishing community turned cruise ship stop in southeast Alaska, when they heard a screech like a jet ...

Regions such as the Bay of Plenty, Coromandel, Northland and Tairawhiti are especially vulnerable to intense rainfall, which ...

While a national LIDAR mapping effort is planned to start in 2015, USGS scientists have worked in regions such as Puget Sound to pinpoint landslide hazards. In Seattle, they developed a forecasting ...

SEATTLE (AP) — People living in the path of the deadly Oso landslide had virtually no warning before a wall of mud, trees and other debris thundered down the mountain. Some of the homeowners didn’t ...