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To: blam
Here is the table that matches those slides. Its amazing the size of these.

These landslides are among the largest on Earth, attaining lengths of 125 miles (200 km) and volumes of 1,200 cubic miles (5,000 cubic km). Moore and others (1989) identified two types of landslides: slumps and debris avalanches. Slumps moved on an overall slope >3¼, caused little disruption of the structural coherence of the volcano's flanks, and extended back to the volcanic rift zones and down to the base of the volcanic pile. Slumps may move slowly or surge abruptly forward several meters, causing large earthquakes. The 1868 and 1975 earthquakes, the largest of Hawaii's historic earthquakes, resulted from movement of the Hilina slump in south Hawaii.

6 posted on 08/19/2004 8:01:25 AM PDT by Slicksadick (He's French. His hairdresser also grooms poodles. He's a rich woman's pet. That cover's it)
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To: Slicksadick

Good post. I saw a one hour documentary on the Hawaii landslides. All the experts were suprised at how far they ran-out.


7 posted on 08/19/2004 10:16:58 AM PDT by blam
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