We talked with Lynn Highland, a geographer with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Landslide Information Center who has studied landslides for 30 years, to learn a little more.

We explain the geology behind the mile-long and mile-wide landslide complex uprooting homes and families in Rancho Palos Verdes. Support for LAist comes from Become a sponsor ...

It could be up to two months before geological experts evaluating the Rolling Hills Estates landslide have any preliminary answers. Details on Rolling Hills Estates landslide likely to take weeks ...

Landslides on the peninsula are foreseeable and have been happening for 67 years. The U.S. Geological Survey even advises that wet winters in particular are a risk factor, ...

But geological engineer Mike Phipps, whose firm is contracting with Rancho Palos Verdes, ... "We've known for a long time there's water in the landslide, ...

The massive landslide on Whidbey Island near Seattle this week is part of a larger complex of slides on Puget Sound islands going back thousands of years. It may not be over yet.

But Spigel and other members of the Maine Geological Survey staff have been able to document more than 200 landslides pre-dating written records by using aerial images created with the “light ...

Thomas Oommen, a professor of geological engineering at Michigan Technological University, is from Kerala, and he produced the Landslide Atlas of Kerala with colleague K.S. Sajinkumar, an ...

Thomas Oommen, a professor of geological engineering at Michigan Technological University, is from Kerala, and he produced the Landslide Atlas of Kerala with colleague K.S. Sajinkumar, an assistant ...