6.5 Million Americans Live in Landslide Hazard Zones. A New Map Reveals if You’re One of Them
While studying the deadliest landslide in U.S. history—the 2014 Oso disaster that killed 43 people in Washington’s Steelhead Haven neighborhood—Joseph Wartman found himself perplexed. Did people understand how risky a place it was? What resources did they have on hand?” he recalls asking himself.
- ▪While studying the deadliest landslide in U.S. history—the 2014 Oso disaster that killed 43 people in Washington’s Steelhead Haven neighborhood—Joseph Wartman found himself perplexed.
- ▪Did people understand how risky a place it was?
- ▪What resources did they have on hand?” he recalls asking himself.
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| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:45:36 +0000 |
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While studying the deadliest landslide in U.S. history—the 2014 Oso disaster that killed 43 people in Washington’s Steelhead Haven neighborhood—Joseph Wartman found himself perplexed. While most of his team members looked up at the slope to understand what triggered the landslide, he fixated on the lower part of the slope, where Steelhead Haven lay buried.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000792301","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"earther","SECTION":"earth-science","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"earth-science","TAGS":"geography,geology,landslides,natural-disasters","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")});…
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