17 May 2011
Landslide wave video
Posted by Dave Petley
Thanks to Tom Hodgson for the heads-up on this one.
Youtube has a video of a wave generated by a landslide in Porcupine Bay in Washington State in 2009. Whilst the news report is a little breathless, the footage of the wave is good:
The Sliding Thought Blog, which now seems to be defunct (?), has a good description of the event. Kudos to the camera woman for her rescue – the two boys survived with only minor injuries.
[…] landslides that triggered waves of different magnitudes have been reported in this blog: (1) Porcupine Bay, Washington State, (2) Nord-Statland, Norway, (3) Vaiont, Italy, (4) Daning River, China, (5) Sokjosen, Norway and […]