Landslides occur in all U.S. states and territories and can be caused by a variety of factors including earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions ... earth or debris move down a slope.

A restive Philippine volcano has erupted briefly on a central island, sending a 2.4-mile plume of ash and debris into the sky ...

Before dawn the next morning, however, two and a half hours after the start of the eruption, a volcanic debris ... avalanche of rock that hurled down Unzen's Mount Mayuyama. The landslide ...

Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano is close to erupting ... is expected to erupt again in our lifetimes, "neither a large debris avalanche nor a major lateral blast like those of May 18, 1980 is ...

Volcanic eruptions involve the ... Another catastrophic event was the 1970 Huascarán debris avalanche in Peru, where an ...

Our new national landslide susceptibility map shows where they're ... Aug. 21, 2024 — New research has revealed how an underwater avalanche grew more than 100 times in size causing a massive ...

said videos of the landslide posted on social media showed a flow of dark debris containing volcanic ash. “The videos indicate that the mud and water flowed at a rate of 30 kph,” he said.

BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN)-- A snow-capped volcano erupted and sparked landslides in southwest Colombia, killing at least six people -- four of them children, government officials and rescue workers ...

Disaster relief teams dug for hours through heavy snow after the avalanche hit a construction camp in Chamoli district, burying the workers under snow and debris. "The avalanche rescue operation ...