1. UNDERSTANDING LANDSLIDES Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction

2. ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETAL SUSTAINABILITY A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF LANDSLIDES ON PEOPLE AND THEIR COMMUNITIES

3. LANDSLIDES NATURAL PHENOMENA THAT OCCUR WITH OR WITHOUT HUMAN ACTIVITY

4. FORCASTING FUTURE EVENTS  The goal is recording, processing, and interpreting geologic changes in time frames of seconds to weeks; i.e., “real- time geology.”

5. FORCASTING FUTURE EVENTS  Predicting a large volume landslide is important for society, but it depends on long-term monitoring of individual slides.

6. LANDSLIDES Falls, Topples, Slides, Spreads, Flows

7. LANDSLIDE HAZARD  Landslides encompass all categories of gravity-related slope failures in Earth materials.

8. SLOPES  Slopes are the most common landforms.  Although they appear stable and static, slopes are actually dynamic, evolving systems.

9. SLOPES  Material is constantly moving on slopes at rates varying from imperceptible creep to thundering avalanches and rock falls moving at high velocities.

10. LANDSLIDES  Gravity slope failures are triggered by earthquake ground shaking or excess precipitation  The slope does not need to be very steep for a landslide to occur.

11. FORCASTING FUTURE EVENTS  To predict when an earthquake will occur is important for society, but it is not yet feasible because earthquake prediction isn’t.

12. LAHAR  A lahar is a special “landslide” or mud flow induced by an explosive volcanic eruption.

14. FORCASTING FUTURE EVENTS  Predicting when a volcano will erupt is important for society, but it depends on knowledge of each volcano’s eruption history.

15. MOUNT RANIER  Mount Ranier has generated more than 60 lahars during the past 10,000 years.  Many of these occurred during periods of volcanic quiescence.

16. MOUNT RANIER  Today, Mount Ranier continues to vent steam and convert its andesitic summit into clay.  A plan to evacuate 50,000 people has been developed.

17. LANDSLIDE HAZARD: ALASKA  THE 1964 PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERED A LARGE VOLUME LANDSLIDE AT TURNAGAIN HEIGHTS.  MILLIONS OF CUBIC METERS OF SOIL AND ROCK MOVED DOWN SLOPE.  THE 1964 PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERED A LARGE VOLUME LANDSLIDE AT TURNAGAIN HEIGHTS.  MILLIONS OF CUBIC METERS OF SOIL AND ROCK MOVED DOWN SLOPE.

18. LANDSLIDE HAZARD: ALASKA  Slope failure was induced by ground shaking of “Quick Clay.”

22. LANDSLIDE HAZARD: ECUADOR

25. LANDSLIDE HAZARD: JAPAN

26. LANDSLIDE HAZARD: WASHINGTON STATE

27. LATERAL SPREADING: JAPAN

29. LATERAL SPREAD: SAN FRANCISCO