U.S. and Worldwide Landslide Data

Interactive U.S. Landslide Data Maps with access to GIS data.

Earthquake-triggered ground-failure, such as landsliding and liquefaction, can contribute significantly to losses, but our current ability to accurately include them in earthquake hazard analyses is limited.

Although they are relatively uncommon, large catastrophic landslides move rapidly destroying everything in their paths. Such landslides are difficult to predict as shown by the following examples.

Table of the Catastrophic Landslides including year, country, triggering process, the volume of material, impact, and comments.