Figure 15.33
Recent deadly mass movements. (A)On February 27, 2006, half the village of Guinsaugon, on Leyte Island, in the Philippines, was buried by this debris slide. The slide traveled quickly down the steep slopes over a distance of 3.8 km (2.3 mi) before coming to rest. Some 1,100 people died in this single slide. (B) This table lists recent mass movement disasters that took 10,000 lives or more. Note that in some cases, multiple mass movement events are grouped together under a single trigger event, such as the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.(AP Photo/Wally Santana)