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Hope Slide

Location: British Columbia, Canada
Latitude & Longitude: 49.303356, -121.250694
Views: 816   Posted By: BCrockcrawler (07/22/2010)
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BCrockcrawler (07/22/2010)

From the BC Government web page on Landslides:

http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Surficial/landslid/

 

The Hope slide, 18 kilometres east of Hope, was one of the largest slides in Canadian history. The southwestern slope of Johnson Peak, collapsed on January 9, 1965, spreading 47 million cubic metres of debris, 85 metres thick, over a 3 kilometre stretch of the Hope-Princeton highway. The slide occurred in an unpopulated area in early morning hours and resulted in four deaths.

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