When can landslides happen? What can trigger a landslide? How is NASA using satellite data to find and prepare for potential landslides? Find the answers and more in this issue of EO Kids, Landslides: Earth on the Move.
EO Kids offers hands-on activities, experiments and more. Make your own mini-landslide in this issue’s Maker Corner. Find out just how much rain it takes to trigger a landslide with DIY Science. Create your own graph and compare annual rain amounts for a real landslide in Data Viz. Finally, meet NASA scientist and landslide expert, Dalia Kirschbaum, to find out what she and her team are doing to help people prepare for potential landslides.
Related stories from the Earth Observatory for educators
- Mudslide Near Collbran, Colorado
- Automating the Detection of Landslides
- Landslide and Barrier Lake near Oso, Washington
- World of Change: Devastation and Recovery at Mt. St. Helens
- Before and After the Sunkosi Landslide
- A Monster Slide
- Landslide in Zhouqu, China
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