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Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides

Earthquakes (National Geographic Video - 2:58) Shaking of the land when Earth’s plates move. ce/terc/content/visualizations/es0804/es0804 page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization Plate movement animations:

San Andreas Fault

Volcanoes

(National Geographic - 3:05) (Top 10 Active Volcanoes – 2:13)

Landslide The term "landslide" describes a wide variety of processes that result in the downward and outward movement of slope-forming materials including rock, soil, artificial fill, or a combination of these. The materials may move by falling, toppling, sliding, spreading, or flowing.rocksoil

Landslide La Conchita, coastal area of southern California. This landslide and earthflow occurred in the spring of People were evacuated and the houses nearest the slide were completely destroyed. This is a typical type of landslide. Photo by R.L. Schuster, U.S. Geological Survey.

Landslide Debris litters a crumbled road after landslides destroyed hundreds of homes in the Kupini and Valle de las Flores neighborhoods in La Paz (map), Bolivia, in According to the Associated Press, thousands of people were affected by the landslides, which had been triggered by heavy rains.La Paz (map)Bolivia

Landslide The slope on a hill where a landslide occurred in Nova Friburgo, 130 km north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 13, (Shana Reis/AFP/Getty Images)

Aerial view of a house at risk following landslides in the locality of Poco Fundo, an isolated area near Petropolis, Brazil on January 18, (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Aerial view of an isolated area severely hit by landslides near Teresopolis, some 100 km from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 18, (VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Slopes covered by mud are seen after landslides in Nova Friburgo, Brazil on Monday, Jan. 17, (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

People flee a landslide on a speed boat as a result of aftershocks from an earthquake in Yingxiu, Sichuan Province, China /China-earthquake-fleeing-a- landslide.html

Landslide (Mudslide) Mudflow covering Washington State Route 504, following the eruption of Mount St. Helens. USGS Photograph taken July 5, 1980, by Robert Schuster.

Landslide Videos (Landslide in California) (National Geographic Video - 3:47)