Other
National Resources Canada: Landslides and Snow Avalanches
Defines a landslide, avalanche, and a rockslide and provides examples. Describes the causes and effects of these events.
Other
Geoscience Australia: Landslides
Provides information on recent Australian landslides, maps of Australian landslides, landslide risk assessment, a survival guide, and a shore safety pamphlet. Use the toolbar to your left to navigate through the different information on...
Ready
Ready
Explore the Ready website for an overview of how families and businesses can prepare for emergencies, threats, and disasters by building kits, making plans, and staying informed. Find safety information about biological threats,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mini Landslide
Students explore how different materials (sand, gravel, lava rock) with different water contents on different slopes result in landslides of different severity. They measure the severity by how far the landslide debris extends into model...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey:the Great M9.2 Alaska Earthquake of March 27, 1964
A description of the earthquake in Prince William Sound, Alaska in 1964. Links to isoseismal map, earthquake damage photos, and seismogram of the earthquake.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Landslide Hazards Program
Discusses the problems associated with landslides, where they occur, and why they occur.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Erosion
In this video from Nature, learn about the erosive action of water on the Hawaiian landscape and human efforts to limit it.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Angle of Repose
In this activity, students measure the maximum slope at which grains are stable (the angle of repose). They explore how different properties of the sediment influence slope stability and lead to different slope failures (mass movements)....
Curated OER
National Park Service: Geological Hazards
Learn about geohazards such as mudslides, earthquakes, and outburst floods that can be found in National Parks.
Other
Oas: Landslide Hazard Assessment
Provides information on landslide mapping hazards, hazard assessment, determining acceptable risk, and development planning.
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US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Landslide Types and Processes [Pdf]
The information in this publication provides an introductory primer on understanding basic scientific facts about landslides-the different types of landslides, how they are initiated, and some basic information about how they can begin...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Landslide Danger in the San Francisco Bay Area
Download a movie about the 1982 landslides of the San Fransisco Bay Area. Shows many devastating stories, scientific discoveries, and the destruction the landslides caused. [58:27]
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Volcano Landslides and Their Effects
Describes what a volcano landslide is, how they occur, the effects of these landslides, and case studies.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Natural Hazards Programs: Lessons Learned for Reducing Risk [Pdf]
This site provides links to articles about natural disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, floods, etc.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Case Study: Zhouqu, China Landslide
This is a 'citizen science' research project where students to apply their knowledge of landslide processes in an investigation of the natural and anthropogenic causes of a real-world landslide catastrophe. Students produce a 'magazine'...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: The Slope of Land in Your Community
Students investigate how particle size and shape relate to the maximum slope angle the particles will maintain during a landslide.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Watch Out for Landslides
Students investigate how particle size and shape relate to the maximum slope angle the particles will maintain during a landslide.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Land on the Run
Students learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds - from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the materials involved. Both...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Savage Earth: The Restless Planet Earthquakes
Discussion of liquefaction and landslides which are two of the many effects of earthquakes.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Introduction to Landslides and Mudflows
Learn about landslides and mudslides.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Earth Science: Erosion and Deposition by Gravity
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identifies causes and effects of landslides and mudslides and explains how slump and creep occur.
Other
Vibrationdata: Alaska Earthquake 1964
Time, date, and size of the Alaskan 1964 earthquake. Photos of the damage caused by the quake and the tsunami, location of the epicenter, and a description of the landslides.
Other
Luke W Interface Designs: Geology of Mars
Learn about six geological processes from Luke W Interface Designs that are happening or have happened on Mars. Ex: aeloian, cratering, landslides, volcanic, and more.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Landslide and How Does It Happen?
Learn about landslides, their causes, the different types, how to prevent them, names of major landslides, and other interesting facts.