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Fast-Moving Debris Flows What Can You Do If You Live Near Steep Hills? Landslide hazards occur in many places around What Can You Do If You Live Near Steep Hills? the world and include fast-moving debris flows, slow-moving landslides, and a variety of flows Prior to Intense Storms: During Intense Storms: and slides initiating from volcanoes. Each year, these hazards cost billions of dollars and cause numerous fatalities and injuries. Awareness and 1. Become familiar with the land around you. 1. Stay alert and stay awake! Many debris-flow education about these hazards is a first step Learn whether debris flows have occurred in fatalities occur when people are sleeping. Listen toward reducing damaging effects. The U.S. your area by contacting local officials, State geo- to a radio for warnings of intense rainfall. Be Geological Survey conducts research and distrib- logical surveys, or departments of natural aware that intense short bursts of rain may be utes information about geologic hazards. resources, and university departments of geology. particularly dangerous, especially after longer Slopes where debris flows have occurred in the periods of heavy rainfall and damp weather. This Fact Sheet is published in English and past are likely to experience them in the future. Spanish and can be reproduced in any form for 2. If you are in areas susceptible to landslides and further distribution. It can also be downloaded 2. Support your local government in efforts to from our Internet website: debris flows, consider leaving if it is safe to do http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/pub/ develop and enforce land-use and building ordi- so. Remember that driving during an intense fact-sheets/fs-071-00 nances that regulate construction in areas suscep- storm is hazardous. tible to landslides and debris flows. Buildings should be located away from steep slopes, 3. Listen for any unusual sounds that might indi- streams and rivers, intermittent-stream channels, cate moving debris, such as trees cracking or Fast-moving Debris Flows and the mouths of mountain channels. boulders knocking together.A trickle of flowing Debris flows start on steep slopes—slopes or falling mud or debris may precede larger 3. Watch the patterns of storm-water drainage on flows. If you are near a stream or channel, be steep enough to make walking difficult. slopes near your home, and note especially the alert for any sudden increase or decrease in water Once started, however, debris flows can places where runoff water converges, increasing flow and for a change from clear to muddy water. even travel over gently sloping ground. The flow over soil-covered slopes. Watch the hillsides Such changes may indicate debris flow activity most hazardous areas are canyon bottoms, around your home for any signs of land move- upstream, so be prepared to move quickly. Don’t stream channels, areas near the outlets of ment, such as small landslides or debris flows or delay! Save yourself, not your belongings. canyons, and slopes excavated for buildings progressively tilting trees. and roads. 4. Be especially alert when driving. 4. Contact your local authorities to learn about Embankments along roadsides are particularly the emergency-response and evacuation plans for susceptible to landslides. Watch the road for col- A. Debris flows (also referred to as mud- your area and develop your own emergency plans lapsed pavement, mud, fallen rocks, and other slides, mudflows, or debris avalanches) gen- for your family and business. indications of possible debris flows. erally occur during intense rainfall on water- saturated soil. They usually start on steep hillsides as soil slumps or slides that liquefy and accelerate to speeds as great as 35 miles (56 km) per hour. Multiple debris flows that start high in canyons commonly funnel into channels. There, they merge, gain volume, and travel long distances from their source. B. Debris flows commonly begin in swales (depressions at the top of small gullies) on steep slopes, making areas downslope from swales particularly hazardous. C. Roadcuts and other altered or excavated areas of slopes are particularly susceptible to debris flows. Debris flows and other land- slides onto roadways are common during rainstorms, and often occur during milder rainfall conditions than those needed for debris flows on natural slopes. D. Areas where surface runoff is channeled, such as along roadways and below culverts, In December 1999, heavy rains caused extensive damage in northern Venezuela. Landslides and debris flows initiated high on steep are common sites of debris flows and other hillsides and entered minor and major drainages. Large volumes of sediment, remnants of buildings, and other debris were transport- ed by debris flows and high flood water. (Photo: United States Southern Command) landslides. U.S. Department of the Interior Printed on recycled paper USGS Fact Sheet FS-071-00 U.S. Geological Survey May 2000 What to do if you suspect earthquakes cause these materials to break imminent landslide danger: free and move downhill. 1. Evacuate. At least five large landslides have swept down the slopes of Mount Rainier, 2. Contact your local fire, Washington, during the past 6,000 years. police, or public works The largest volcano landslide in historical department. time occurred at the start of the May 18, 3. Inform affected neighbors. 1980, Mount St. Helens eruption. Lahars Flows and Slides Initiating from Mudflows or debris flows composed mostly Volcanoes of volcanic materials on the flanks of a vol- cano are called lahars. These flows of mud, Pyroclastic Flows rock, and water can rush down valleys and stream channels at speeds of 20 to 40 miles Fast-moving avalanches of per hour (32 to 64 km per hour) and can In October-November 1998, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Hurricane Mitch triggered hot ash, rock fragments, travel more than 50 miles (80 km). Some El Berrinche landslide, which dammed the Rio Choluteca and impounded a sewage-filled and gas can move down lahars contain so much rock debris (60 to 90 lagoon. Arrows show the path of landslide debris that dammed the river. (Photo: USGS, the sides of a volcano dur- percent by weight) that they look like fast- Ed Harp) ing explosive eruptions or moving rivers of wet concrete. Close to their when the steep side of a source, these flows are powerful enough to Slow-moving Landslides— growing lava dome collapses and breaks rip up and carry trees, houses, and huge What to do and look for during and apart. These pyroclastic flows can be as hot boulders miles downstream. Farther down- immediately after heavy rains as 1,500˚ F and move at speeds of 100 miles stream they entomb everything in their path (160 km) per hour, up to 150 miles (240 in mud. Areas that are generally prone to landslides: km) per hour. Such flows tend to follow val- leys and are capable of knocking down and Historically, lahars have been one of the 4 On existing old landslides burning everything in their path. Lower den- deadliest volcano hazards. They can occur 4 On or at the base of slopes sity pyroclastic flows, called pyroclastic both during an eruption and when a volcano 4 In or at the base of minor drainage hollows surges, can easily overflow ridges hundreds is quiet. The water that creates lahars can 4 At the base or top of an old fill slope of feet high. come from melting snow and ice (especially 4 At the base or top of a steep cut slope water from a glacier melted by a pyroclastic 4 Developed hillsides where leach field septic The climactic eruption of Mount St. Helens, flow or surge), intense rainfall, or the break- systems are used Washington, on May 18, 1980, generated a out of a summit crater lake. Large lahars are series of explosions that formed a huge a potential hazard to many communities Areas that are typically considered safe pyroclastic surge. This so-called “lateral downstream from glacier-clad volcanoes. from landslides: blast” destroyed an area of 230 4 On hard, nonjointed bedrock that has not square miles (368 moved in the past square km). Trees 4 On relatively flatlying areas away from sud- 6 feet (2 meters) den changes in slope angle in diameter were 4 At the top or along the nose of ridges, set mowed down like back from the tops of slopes blades of grass as far as 15 miles Features that might be noticed prior to major (24 km) from the landsliding: volcano. 4 Springs, seeps, or saturated ground in areas Volcano that have not typically been wet Landslides 4 New cracks or unusual bulges in the ground, street pavements, or sidewalks A landslide or 4 Soil moving away from foundations debris avalanche 4 Ancillary structures such as decks and patios is a rapid down- tilting and (or) moving relative to the main hill movement of house rocky material, 4 Tilting or cracking of concrete floors and snow, and (or) foundations ice. Volcano land- Following the 1982 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, melting snow and ice triggered this 4 Broken water lines and other underground lahar, which traveled down the north flank of the mountain, following the channel of the North Fork of slides range in the Toutle River. (Photo: USGS/CVO) utilities size from small 4 Leaning telephone poles, trees, retaining movements of walls, or fences loose debris on the surface of a volcano to 4 For more information, contact: Offset fence lines massive collapse of the entire summit or 4 Sunken or down-dropped road beds Lynn Highland 4 Rapid increase in creek water levels, possibly sides of a volcano. Steep volcanoes are sus- accompanied by increased turbidity (soil con- ceptible to landslides because they are built National Landslide Information Center tent) partly of layers of loose volcanic rock frag- U.S.
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