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Some of the worst disasters in human history have been caused by land-slides. Entire cities have been obliterated as happened in 1970 in Peru where 21,000 people were buried in the ruins of the Huascaran area. Even greater loss of life resulted from landslides at Kansu, China, in 1920 where 200,000 were killed. Both these events were initiated by earthquakes that jarred unstable slopes and released deadly cascading earth materials. Thus, landslides pose severe hazards in mountainous and hilly terrain, but they can even occur in more gently sloping terrain as we shall soon learn.
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Coates, D.R. (1985). Landslides. In: Geology and Society. Environmental Resource Management Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2543-7_7
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