GeoHazards: Avalanches, Landslides, and Mudflows
Avalanches, landslides, and debris flows are all types of geophysical mass flows that travel along the existing topography and are controlled by the nature of the terrain over which they move as well as by their own material properties.
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| Actively advancing mudflow in 2005 at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador. The structure to the left is a hot spring bath house in which about 100 people were bating just before the flow reached this location | Destruction caused by the 2006 debris flow at Panabaj, Guatemala. Much of the village was destroyed and about 500 people lost their lives. |