Giant landslide in Alaska

[astroron]

Click on the gallery to see the pictures
The video is also quite frightening.
http://earthsky.org/earth/alaska-landslide-might-be-largest-recorded-in-north-america
Cheers:thumbsup:

[gary]

Hi Ron,

Staggering to imagine the amount of material involved.

I have been up-close and personal next to smaller ones in the Karakorams in Pakistan
and when you get that mixture of permafrost and rock, it can pour down in what appears
to be a concrete slurry. But when I say smaller, imagine a thousand or so cement mixers
pouring their loads out all at once down a slope.

But this landslide in Alaska is several orders of magnitude larger than that!

[blink138]

thats a very old clip is it not?
i seem to have seen a similar if not the same clip some years ago no?
pat

[gary]

Hi Pat,

The main story with regards the Alaska landslide including still photos is here -
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/12/massive-landslide-in-alaska-sweeps-over-glacier/

There is no clip of the Alaska landslide as it went unwitnessed until after it
had happened.

The clip at the bottom of the link Ron posted was an earlier National Geographic feature and the text above
it reads "If you’re interested in learning more about landslides, check out this short video from National Geographic".

[MrB]

The clip is not of the landslide in the main article.
There are only photo's from a plane taken one month after the slide.

Edit: Gary was quicker ;)

[astroron]

I did not say the video was of the landslide:shrug:

I said .

(quote)
Click on the gallery to see the pictures

It pays to read the article :D
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Ric]

Thanks for the link Ron.

That was a very interesting article.

Cheers

[MrB]

Sorry Ron, I was answering Pat.
I probably should have addressed Pat directly, but I thought my reply would have immediately followed Pat's post, but as I said, Gary was quicker ;)

and all the replies in this thread too it would seem :D

[Stardrifter_WA]

It doesn't surprise me, after all, it isn't a quiescent rock that we live on. What does surprise me is that people still build houses in very susceptible areas.