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Landslide Inventories across the United States (ver. 3.0, February 2025) Landslide Inventories across the United States (ver. 3.0, February 2025)

1. Abstract Landslides are damaging and deadly, and they occur in every U.S. state. However, our current ability to understand landslide hazards at the national scale is limited, in part because spatial data on landslide occurrence across the U.S. varies greatly in quality, accessibility, and extent. Landslide inventories are typically collected and maintained by different agencies and

Rock mass quality and structural geology observations in Prince William Sound, Alaska (2023) Rock mass quality and structural geology observations in Prince William Sound, Alaska (2023)

Multiple subaerial landslides adjacent to Prince William Sound, Alaska (for example, Dai and others, 2020; Higman and others, 2023; Schaefer and others, 2024) pose a threat to the public because of their potential to generate ocean waves (Barnhart and others, 2021, 2022; Dai and others, 2020) that could affect towns and marine activities. One bedrock landslide on the west side of Barry...

Rock mass quality and structural geology observations in Prince William Sound, Alaska (2022) Rock mass quality and structural geology observations in Prince William Sound, Alaska (2022)

Multiple subaerial landslides adjacent to Prince William Sound, Alaska (for example, Dai and others, 2020; Higman and others, 2023; Schaefer and others, 2024) pose a threat to the public because of their potential to generate ocean waves (Barnhart and others, 2021, 2022; Dai and others, 2020) that could affect towns and marine activities. One bedrock landslide on the west side of Barry...

Rainfall, Volumetric soil-water content, Video, and Geophone Data from the Calwood Fire Burn Area, Colorado, April 2021 to November 2023 Rainfall, Volumetric soil-water content, Video, and Geophone Data from the Calwood Fire Burn Area, Colorado, April 2021 to November 2023

Rainfall, volumetric soil-water content, video, and geophone data characterizing postfire rainfall and runoff were collected at two stations in the 2020 Calwood Fire Burn Area in Colorado. This release contains data from stations at two sites named Heil Ranch (40° 8' 43.47" N, 105° 20' 26.352" W) and Calwood (40° 9' 4.76" N, 105° 21' 20.79" W). The data presented here were collected from...

Rainfall, Video, and Geophone Data from the Hermit's Peak/ Calf Canyon Fire Burn Area, New Mexico, June 2022 to June 2024 Rainfall, Video, and Geophone Data from the Hermit's Peak/ Calf Canyon Fire Burn Area, New Mexico, June 2022 to June 2024

Precipitation, volumetric soil-water content, videos, and geophone data characterizing postfire debris flows were collected at the 2022 Hermit’s Peak Calf-Canyon Fire in New Mexico. This dataset contains data from June 22, 2022, to June 26, 2024. The data were obtained from a station located at 35° 42’ 28.86” N, 105° 27’ 18.03” W (geographic coordinate system). Each data type is...

Hurricane Maria's Most Mobile (MMM) landslides in nine study areas in the Lares, Naranjito and Utuado Municipalities, Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria's Most Mobile (MMM) landslides in nine study areas in the Lares, Naranjito and Utuado Municipalities, Puerto Rico

In 2017, Hurricane Maria triggered widespread landsliding in Puerto Rico. Published landslide inventories from Hurricane Maria (Bessette-Kirton and others, 2019; Baxstrom and others, 2021a, 2021b; Einbund and others, 2021a, 2021b) provided detailed mapping, including 2919 locations of headscarp points, travel distance lines, source areas, and landslide-affected areas (combined source and...

Maps showing landslide structures at three locations on the active part of the Slumgullion landslide, Hinsdale County, Colorado in 2002, 2013, and 2023 Maps showing landslide structures at three locations on the active part of the Slumgullion landslide, Hinsdale County, Colorado in 2002, 2013, and 2023

The maps in this data release show active landslide structures in three areas along the north flank of the Slumgullion landslide. After the entire active part of the landslide was mapped in 1992 and 1993 (Fleming and others, 1999), we remapped these three smaller areas at roughly decadal intervals. Our goal was to learn what structures might persist and how they might change as...

Inventory of rock avalanches in the central Chugach Mountains, northern Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1984-2024 Inventory of rock avalanches in the central Chugach Mountains, northern Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1984-2024

In the Prince William Sound region of Alaska, recent glacier retreat started in the mid-1800s and began to accelerate in the mid-2000s in response to warming air temperatures (Maraldo and others, 2020). Prince William Sound is surrounded by the Chugach Mountains and has numerous ocean-terminating glaciers, with rapid deglaciation increasingly exposing oversteepened bedrock walls of...

Inventory of debris flows in burned (2020-2022) and unburned (1995-2020) areas in the western Cascade Range of Oregon Inventory of debris flows in burned (2020-2022) and unburned (1995-2020) areas in the western Cascade Range of Oregon

This data release contains two debris-flow inventories summarizing observations from burned and unburned areas in the western Cascade Range of Oregon (OR). The burned inventory focuses on debris flows that occurred during the first two years after the 2020 Archie Creek, Holiday Farm, Beachie Creek/Lionshead, and Riverside fires (OR_field_observations.csv). The unburned inventory (1995...

Rock mass quality and structural geology observations in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska from the summers of 2021 and 2022 Rock mass quality and structural geology observations in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska from the summers of 2021 and 2022

Subaerial and submarine landslides adjacent to, and within, Glacier Bay, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (GBNPP), Alaska pose a threat to the public because of their potential to generate ocean waves that could impact marine activities. Although historical records of tsunamis generated by landslides in GBNPP are uncommon, there are records that document the destructive power of at...

Postfire erosion estimates for large California wildfires that occurred between 1984 and 2021 Postfire erosion estimates for large California wildfires that occurred between 1984 and 2021

This data release presents a compilation of postfire sediment mobilization data from wildfires greater than 100 km2 that occurred in California or regions of southern Oregon that drain to the California coast between 1984 and 2021. This compilation includes three sources of sediment mobilization data: hillslope erosion modeled using the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) postfire...

Compilation of runoff-generated debris-flow inventories for 18 fires across Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington, USA Compilation of runoff-generated debris-flow inventories for 18 fires across Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington, USA

Description This data release is an inventory of runoff-generated postfire debris flows compiled from 18 burn areas across six western U.S. states. Debris-flow data from the following fires are included: Arizona: 2019 Museum, 2021 Flag, and 2022 Pipeline Fires California: 2014 Silverado, 2015 Valley, 2019 Briceburg, 2020 Dolan, 2020 El Dorado, 2020 Lake, and 2021 Dixie Fires Colorado...
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