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USGS CMG InfoBank: Landslides and Mud Flows


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Comment: 20:22 - 20:46 (00:24)

Source: Annenberg/CPB Resources - Earth Revealed - 1. Down to Earth

Keywords: mudflow, landslide

Our transcription: Even more destructive than volcanoes and earthquakes are mudflows, landslides, and other related earth movements.

Every year they exact a staggering toll on populated areas.

In some places, people have attempted to live with land movements although not always very successfully.

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