Stuff You Should Know - Selects: How Landslides Work

Episode Date: August 7, 2021

Landslides are a form of mass movement of the Earth, and with the amount of death and destruction they wreak on the people and towns they cover, their toll can be massive. Learn all about landslides with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark and Charles W. Chuck Brian is with me as always. Hello, sir Hello, how are you? I'm good. We've got Jerry in the house. Oh, yeah, this one You know probably won't be our funniest podcast No, and I have to say that I suggested landslides Without knowing about that landslide. No, I swear. No, I promise you I sent this to you on Monday And then saw like a few hours later Wow, and I was like, oh boy, I didn't you know, I was I was on vacation so I didn't hear about it But yeah, so it's super relevant

Well, yeah, it is, you know, apparently unintentionally relevant. Yeah, like our black boxes episode. Yeah, it's been happening weirdly. Yeah if you have been Not paying attention to the news at all lately then you may not know but there was a massive landslide in Washington that as of last count I think the death toll is at like 24 Yeah, which is an astoundingly high number for a landslide And at least in the United States because something like 25 to 35 people die in the US a year Yeah from landslides. This one was one single enormous landslide and if you haven't seen the pictures To get an idea of just how large it was

You should go online immediately And check it out because it's it was nuts. What happened there? Yeah, it's about an hour north of Seattle and I know we have a lot of fans in Seattle. So we're obviously thinking about everyone there But it is, you know, there's still you know, 170 plus people missing and it's it's it looks like it will be Easily the deadliest landslide in US history by the time this is all said and done it seems like it But I'm clearly hoping there's more survivors, but it's just a scary man. Oh, yeah I think about like being trapped like that and possibly still alive. It's just like the whole thing is upsetting Yeah, because I mean if you were inside a structure, it's now covered with mud

You might you know, there's a chance that you are You're not buried the structure around you is buried, right? So, yeah, it's it's pretty awful stuff. Yeah The to me what's even more awful and I read an article where a resident an unnamed resident was saying like Yeah, we're not mad at the authorities. But yeah, apparently they they didn't heed a lot of Um Warnings. Oh, really this area the area that was covered in landslide was Known since the 60s in the area is slide hill

Uh-huh that the area itself is called the steelhead landslide So like imagine if the street you live on is Is is not an east like right but in steelhead landslide right landslide is in the name of the area that you live So it wasn't like the biggest surprise. No, and there was a 1999 report by the US Army Corps of Engineers that predicted a The potential for a large catastrophic failure Right there where it happened and that's exactly what happened the landslide happened it covered about a Square mile. Yeah, and is like 15 feet deep right now Well, you can't tell people where to live though, you know, no, you definitely can't I'm not saying they shouldn't have worn

But like people still live in flood zones and people still Build their houses on the sides of a hill in Malibu and yeah And I guess if you're warned and like you were willing to take that risk and you want to then yeah I don't want to disagree with that, but I I don't know if I Don't know if everybody was as aware right potential But apparently there was a landslide in the area as recent as 2006 really yeah So apparently this was the big one and it was coming a long time and that and set off by water in this case, right? Yeah, there was word that possibly it was an earthquake, but they think though

It was there was a lot of rain. Yeah that came before then and so well Let's let's get down to explaining what happened exactly the the landslide there is actually technically a mudslide And mudslides landslides a bunch of other ones. They're all they all fall under something called mass movements Yeah, and that is the umbrella term and that basically means gravity is at work Moving something down a slope some kind of sediment. It can be a landslide which can is obviously devastating or it can be super slow over centuries and we'll get into all that in a minute, but and Well, we'll get into all the triggers too, but I guess we should talk about their categorized depending on How fast it's moving?

what kind of materials are being moved right in every case though you're talking about soil Moving off of bedrock the friction being overcome by gravity That's exactly where the landslide is and it's like super fast erosion Yeah on any slope you have soil over rock and it's being held in place by friction It's kind of scary to think about it really is you know, it's true, but then when you read it It's like wow. Yeah, I mean like if you've ever like dug a hole in the ground. Yeah, it's not easy It's not like it's not like Silt or something like that. It's it's like ground. It's hard ground, but you know that stuff is it's not

Fused to the bedrock right? It's it's there's there's a kind of There's a friction that's holding it in place and that can that can fail and that's that's what a landslide is exactly like you said Gravity overcomes friction. Yeah, and it can on some very large scales It can on small scales and then like you said depending on the the type of movement how it moves What's moved you have different categories of mass movements landslides are just one of them or a slide Yeah, is one category the slides creeps slumps and flows. Yeah creeps are obviously super slow it can be Months years it can be centuries of creep and that is when the sediment When the friction is is not working, but it's not completely destroyed

So there's still some friction. Yeah, it's just moving super slow And that's usually as a result of a lot of freezing and thawing Going on to change the composition of the soil. Yeah when the when a freeze comes through the sediment in the soil Is pushed upward as it freezes and when it thaws it falls back downward So what you have if you look at it on a geological time scale. Yeah, it's basically an undulation Up and down yeah of the soil that is moving downward on a slope like millimeters at a time, right? And then the telltale signs though you can see that a creep is happening because telephone poles will be kind of

Askew trees or something like that. Yeah, yeah, that means that you're standing on or looking at a Slumping slope. Yeah, and you won't see it happening No, but I did see a pretty awesome gift. I can't remember where was it time-lapse. Yeah It's a time-lapse gift and it wasn't over the course of a year It was over the course of I think several days and San Bernardino or whatever, but it's just like whoa there it goes It makes you feel unstable Yeah, like the earth beneath your feet. Yeah, well, I mean the the earth is a Constantly evolving mass, you know soil is being moved from here to there and there's all sorts of different agents of change

But and it moves in different ways it can creep. Yeah I think I said a slumping slope. That's not true. That was a creeping slope Yes, a slump is when you have a big chunk that breaks off as a single a whole chunk and yeah moves That's a slump. Yeah, and that can be The actual thing can be called a slump too. It can have a couple of meanings there for that word Like the big piece can be called a slump, right? Or if the movement is the slump if they're not sliding like they used to Yeah, true and that is when

Basically the base can't support this big chunk on top of it and again, it's usually due to moisture and Water right is the general cause for slumps as well. Yeah, water's like the primary all-time leading winningest cause of mass movements. Yeah, because either like in a slump of Good analogy or a good example is if you're at the beach and you just see like a whole a whole Hunk of wet sand shear off of another hunk of wet sand that you just witnessed a slump Yeah, and actually water can create stability for sandy loamy or clay soil

Yeah, like you build a sandcastle. You want the sand wet exactly up to a point, right? When you add too much water become saturated and then you have a slump or you have a slider of flow Yeah, and then with other types of mass movement that water can get underneath and Interrupt the friction between the soil and the bedrock, right and that's when you have some sort of movement as well so that's creep and that's slump and then finally we have flow which is just basically a soupy mix of water and rock and Soil and other materials and it's just those are usually the deadliest. Yeah, spread further That's like a mud flow or an avalanche. They get everywhere. They'll like enter into everything. It's not just it's not just like a bunch of dirt

It's it's like a river a moving a fast-moving river of mud and debris and I misspoke earlier That's in oh, so Washington. That's what that's what that was. It was the Flow a mud flow that started it that came down and covered everything Oh, okay, gotcha that which actually hampered rescue Operations because apparently it's just like quicksand right now. I suck you right in Man, yeah, so in the case of Well in the case of anything other than a creeper slump if you're talking about a quick landslide It happens just

Like in a snap it's it's going and picking up speed, but it is the result of years and years of of Like slow steady erosion Basically, it's not something that just happens or it can be triggered. We'll talk about like earthquakes and stuff like that right, but in general, it's the weathering down of objects and I guess the difference we should describe between weathering and erosion is Erosion is transporting the weather material and weathering is the actual wearing down of that material right? Yeah, so they're different Yeah, so if you have a rock and

That's a nice big solid piece millions of years later. Yeah, it's been weathered into a bunch of Soil yeah, and then as as as it's lost its composition It can move more easily and when it moves it's being eroded. So erosion is the is the process of Movement the weathering is everything that leads up to that ability for it to be moved. Yeah, and weathering is important because it's Your weathered landscape is going to be much more likely to land slide That's why you'll see them in more extreme environments where you get like tons of rain or like a lot of snow. Maybe Heat cold water and oxygen those are all things that impact weathering or the cause weathering and there's there's two types of weathering

There's mechanical weathering and there's chemical weathering and mechanical weathering is basically The material is broken down, but it retains its same chemical composition like the rock, right? Yeah, it was it's still the rock, but it was broken down into smaller pieces of itself Say by wind or something like that. Yeah, or water lapping against it Now if you had that pieces of those pieces of rock that were in water that ultimately over the course of years dissolved it Yeah, it would be in solution and it would no longer chemically resemble itself That's chemical weathering, right? So like if you pour acid on your hand It's gonna reconstitute into something else on the other end the hole that burns through it

The stuff that ends up on the table is not really the same thing as your hand. You just chemically weathered your hand. Oh, wow That's a pretty extreme example and then you talked about the constant state of movement on the earth that's Going on at all times and that's basically if you're gonna have erosion you're gonna have a deposit somewhere and it's just a constant cycle on the earth of Weathering carried away by erosion and being put somewhere else right and in cases of landslides The bottoms of hills. Yeah, when we toured Guatemala you Jerry and I and or I should say me We were at the site of a landslide that had happened. I will never forget. Yeah, and they you know

you could still see in the sort of Jungle-like forest that the swath that had been cut through years earlier because all the stuff on either side was old growth Yeah, and then the stuff that through the landslide flow was yeah, it was like it was much younger Yeah shorter like a different kind of green as well And they they pointed out that we were like 12 feet higher than basically standing on Bodies, yeah, the old village. Yeah, they were unable to recover about 250 people. Yeah, it was really upsetting Yeah, and remember their children were running around all these orphaned children

Like they were just kind of they belong to the the remaining village now It was really something else. Well, yeah, and just when they said like you're like 12 feet higher than right Just the whole land raised up. Yeah, because of this months line It was one of those ones that like you just kind of chewed on for a while before you finally understood like the full gravity of it Even though like while while I was standing there. I was like, oh, this is nuts Yeah, and the more I thought about it the nuttier it got So the sediment We talked about the deposition at the bottom of the hill the sediment is known as talus

Right. Let's see official word for it when it's from a landslide. Yeah. Yeah, that's what's being carried down and With erosion there are five different things that can act on it Which are water which we've covered and wind and then gravity of course which we mentioned and then waves and glaciers too And technically gravity is a part of all of them, right? Yeah, that's true a part of all mass movement, but I'm those five agents of erosion there are different things that can trigger a landslide or a mass movement And and really if you think about it all a mass movement is like a landslide. Yeah, it's just erosion in At high speed sudden and high speed erosion is basically what that is rather than taking Millions of years to move from here to there through wind or waves or whatever

It's just it happens in a moment and it happens on mass Hey everybody when you're staying at an Airbnb you might be like me wondering could my place be an Airbnb and if it could What could it earn? So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lauren and Nova Scotia who realized she could Airbnb her cozy backyard tree house And the extra income helps cover her bills and pays for her travel So yeah, you might not realize it, but you might have an Airbnb too find out what your place could be earning at air bnb.ca Slash host hey, I'm Lance Bass host of the new I hard podcast frosted tips with Lance Bass The hardest thing can be knowing who to turn to when questions arise or times get tough Or you're at the end of the road. Ah, okay. I see what you're doing

Do you ever think to yourself? What advice would Lance Bass and my favorite boy bands give me in this situation? If you do you've come to the right place because I'm here to help this. I promise you. Oh god Seriously, I swear and you won't have to send an sos because I'll be there for you Oh man, and so my husband Michael. Um, hey, that's me. Yep We know that Michael and a different hot sexy teen crush boypander each week to guide you through life step by step Oh, not another one

Kids relationships life in general can get messy. You may be thinking this is the story of my life Just stop now. If so, tell everybody you everybody About my new podcast and make sure to listen so we'll never ever have to say bye. Bye. Bye. Bye All right, so we mentioned triggers uh, the landslide always has to have a trigger that has to be something to actually set it off right? Uh, even though it may be years and years in the making Something finally pushes that button to make sure it's not going to be a mess. It's going to be a mess. It's going to be a mess. It's going to be a mess. It's going to be a mess. Uh, even though it may be years and years in the making something finally pushes that button to make it happen.

Um, it it Forces gravity to overcome friction. That's right Uh, one of the things that we mentioned already in the case of Washington was water and that is Probably the most common right heavy rainfall I know in california and los angeles when you see houses slipping off the hill in malibu Just because they don't get a lot of rain and when they do things like that happen. Yeah And it's either water saturating the ground and just making it so heavy that it flows downward Or it gets down in between the the soil and the bedrock and just causes the whole thing to

It undermines everything either way water equals a lot of movement earthquakes that can definitely trigger a landslide Um We've covered earthquakes. You should go listen to that show if you have and it's a good one But you've got the vibrating of the earth's crust and that um, it's going to disrupt that friction pretty easily. Yep Another big one is wildfires. Yeah, which you would think well, how would a wildfire trigger that? I'll tell you how um vegetation the roots of vegetation Can lock soil into basically a totally solid cemented state

Yeah, and as long as you have thick vegetation on a slope It's going to be fairly stable when a fire comes through burns out all that vegetation and often burns the roots as well leaving Not only less stable soil, but actual pockets in that soil too Yeah, and now it's kind of pebbled which makes it a lot more vulnerable to landslides after a wildfire Yeah, I would I'm just guessing here, but I would guess a landslide could happen like even long after a wildfire Yeah, like if those roots die away, it would just become even less stable. Yeah Uh, and then volcanoes Uh, volcanic action is a big cause and there are a couple of

different kinds of flows That can contribute to a landslide from a volcano one is called a pyroclastic flow And that is after your dome has collapsed or during interruption And these are super high speed. They've clocked them at 450 miles an hour Uh, 1500 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah a lot of flowing at you at 450 miles an hour. I can't even imagine that like what that would even look like Can you imagine 724 kilometers per hour? That's easier. Well, there you go. Then you just imagine 450 miles an hour. Yeah, but I mean I don't even know what that looks like Yeah, you know or it looks like instant death. Yeah, exactly

Uh, and then they uh, something called a lahar, which is an Indonesian word And this isn't uh, it doesn't have to be during interruption, but it can be And it is set off by water as well. Um It's almost always near something called a stratovolcano Which are like super steep cones and a lot of times there's either a crater lake or it's snow capped up top And so that's the the water agent A lot of times it's the snow and it sort of looks like wet concrete. Yeah flowing downhill Yeah, and it may or may not be set off during an actual volcanic eruption. It could happen anytime

Yeah, and it's it's much slower, you know 20 to 40 miles an hour, but still if you're in a golf cart, you're dead Yeah, that's a good point Uh, and while it's not fast it has um a lot more rock. So it is Uh, one of the deadliest. Yeah a lahar is I think because of just the sheer like it can carry like a big boulder Yes in the middle of that wet concrete plus a volcano also. Um, it's just it's not very stable Because the composition of it is usually pretty loose rocky soil. Yeah, uh, so yeah, if you had water it immediately turns to slurry Um, and when they erupt they tend to shake the ground a little bit

Which is what happened in the um largest recorded Landslide in 1980 Mount St. Helens. Yeah, everybody knows the eruption But there was actually an attendant landslide that is on youtube you can check out as a matter of fact We're putting a post up Of just amazing landslide footage That you can check out on our website. Um, just go to stuff you should know.com and check out that post There's just a just some crazy stuff that people just happen to be filming And all of a sudden the the

The earth changes right before your eyes. Yeah, and one of them is this Mount St. Helens eruption And where just the whole mountain is basically just melting in front of you. I remember that one Do you? Oh, yeah, I was only four. Yeah, I was nine. So it was on my radar. Oh, yeah, slightly That one traveled at speeds of 150 miles an hour And again, washington state Not getting a break. Uh, destroyed 27 bridges, uh, about 200 homes Miles and miles of road and covered Uh, 23 square miles

Uh with debris Yeah, that was a mountain st. Helens. Well, you know just a landslide another another frequent hazard associated with landslides is you think about it Um, when all of this earth is coming down it's coming downward Into a lower space, which is very frequently a valley. Yeah, which is very frequently a river valley Yeah, which means that the river is damned now. So it's flooding behind it. Yeah, right? So you have a flood a flood hazard immediately and then if that river or if that dam breaks Then you have another flood hazard down river all of a sudden too, which is something that's going on in washington right now Yeah, the same thing happened in um, I think it's the most expensive landslide in us history in thistle utah

In 1984 the same thing happened there. It dammed up the spanish fork river And caused like much more problems just because of the flooding. Yeah, and that was a 200 million dollar fix in 1984 dollars And uh, that was even when reagan was in office. So it's not too much different from the 2013 14 dollars Uh, the submarine landslide we should probably talk about that is uh in the ocean and that is You can you can have an earthquake Under the ocean right triggering a landslide underwater, which will trigger a tsunami Yeah, I can a one two three punch basically of natural disasters happening. Yeah all in concert

um, that and then actually I don't know if this really technically counts But it seeing that um, little bit triggered a memory of the lake pinure disaster In louisiana in 1980 texco was drilling in lake pinure And apparently they didn't consult the map closely enough and they were using a 14 inch diameter drill and they drilled Into the lake bottom which was on top of a salt mine and they drilled into an operational salt mine And the lake got sucked into the hole and a giant whirlpool Um that took about like 30 to 50 of the surrounding acreage around the lake in

Into the lake with it holy cow 11 barges were sucked in The um flow of water reversed so it went from fresh water to salt water It sucked the gulf into it for a second man And then a couple days later after there were like 400 foot geysers as like these shafts were filling with water and the air was being displaced and um A couple days later after the water pressure stabilized like nine of the barges pop back up and like went back to floating After being sucked down into this diamond mine. That's crazy. Isn't that nuts and apparently there's footage of it It's it's awesome. It's like just the most amazing thing. I guess more amazing than that is no one died

Wow, yeah, there was one guy on the lake who was operating the drill He got all and then there was a guy fishing on the lake and he zoomed his boat To shore and made it like wow and far enough that he made it, but I think three dogs died Yeah, a lake peng your p Eig any ur disaster check it out. I was all excited and then the saddest ending ever Um, man, that's crazy. I'm gonna put that up. There had to be some sort of erosion going on there Oh, yeah, technically it was submarine erosion um the most deadly

landslide in the history of the world Is uh was in 1920 in china uh december of 1920 it was triggered by an earthquake and Uh as many as 200,000 people died in that holy cow and some of that was from the earthquake But they said the landslide was responsible for most of the the deaths. Yeah, like I said in the u.s It's like 25 to 35 deaths a year worldwide. It's more like 4,000 and then on On years where there's terrible earthquakes. It'll go up into the tens of thousands

Um, and then there was there was a mud like for there was a mudslide in 1999 In vargas state of venezuela that killed like 30,000 people just covered a bunch of towns like all at once It was a mud slide or a mud flow. I guess Huh, well one thing I thought was interesting was that um, and I think jennifer points us out early in the article that While in these states, we don't see a lot of uh deaths from landslides each year. They're the most expensive natural disaster Uh over I think tornadoes earthquakes combined. Yep in this country And if you will consult your homeowner's insurance, you will almost definitely find that

Landslides are not covered. Yeah. Nope Hey friends, when you're staying at an airbnb, you might be like me wondering could my place be an airbnb? And if it could what could it earn? So I was pretty surprised to hear about lisa in manitoba who got the idea to airbnb the backyard guest house over childhood home Now the extra income helps pay her more So I was pretty surprised to hear about lisa in manitoba who got the idea to airbnb the backyard guest house over childhood home Now the extra income helps pay her mortgage. So yeah, you might not realize it But you might have an airbnb too find out what your place could be earning at airbnb dot ca

Slash host Hey, i'm lance bass host of the new i hard podcast frosted tips with lance bass The hardest thing can be knowing who to turn to when questions arise or times get tough or you're at the end of the road Uh, okay. I see what you're doing. Do you ever think to yourself? What advice would lance bass and my favorite boy bands give me in this situation? If you do you've come to the right place because i'm here to help this. I promise you Oh god Seriously, I swear and you won't have to send an sos because i'll be there for you

Oh, man, and so my husband michael, um, hey, that's me. Yep We know that michael and a different hot sexy teen crush boy bander each week to guide you through life step by step Oh, not another one Kids relationships life in general can get messy. You may be thinking this is the story of my life Oh, just stop now. If so, tell everybody you everybody About my new podcast and make sure to listen So we'll never ever have to say bye. Bye. Bye. Bye Well, I guess we should get to that point then that or is it us is it humans that are causing these things? Yes

Well, I guess we should get to that point then that or is it us is it humans that are causing these things? Yes Always not always. No animals can cause it like a goat can cause a a landslide if it really is Unsure-footed. Yeah, but goats don't blast mountain tops with dynamite That's one. Yeah, they don't deforest Yeah deforestation is a big problem uh road building and through the mountains Yeah, because think about it when you have a mountain and you cut a road through it Yeah, all of a sudden what was once a relatively gentle slope are now two steep slopes on either side just aiming right at the road Well, yeah, and I think everyone's probably driven on mountain roads where they either have

uh chain link fencing on the side of it, which is scary enough or I guess it's even scarier when they don't have fencing, but they have signs that say, you know watch out for falling rocks Yeah, or good luck pal. Yeah Um, there are things that people are doing though. Uh, when they do build roads they uh Sometimes we'll put in drainage pipes to carry away water, right which helps Uh Impermeable membranes like plastic sheeting. Yeah, so it can't trickle down. Yeah retaining walls. Yeah

And reforestation So if you're gonna clear cut an area, uh, if you're gonna harvest timber Maybe go back in there and try and reforest Plant something. Yeah You know for a number of reasons really sure. I can't believe that that's not a law That if you take x number of trees down you have to plant x number of trees And the number you plant should be more than the number you took. Is that not a law? I'm I'm quite sure it's not Yeah, we can't even get black box recorders ejected

For an extra like 50 bucks a plane. Remember? I remember there's no law for that Hey, but here in Georgia, we just passed the law where uh, you can bring guns into churches and uh bars Oh, I thought you were gonna say that I'm actually rejoicing for another law I don't know if it was signed into law or if the house passed it and it's on its way It is now a crime to drive slow in the fast lane Or it will soon be when they pass this law what give me some parameters. Do you know it's called the slow poke bill? Okay, and if you are impeding the flow of traffic not even if you're going Under 55 or under 45, right? They're so aware that Georgia drives fast

That they say if you're impeding the flow of traffic, even if other people are breaking the law and you're going the speed limit You are breaking the law by being a slow poke in the fast lane, which is the most glorious law any Any city or state has ever come up with well if you state's rights if you go to europe The the left lane is just for passing like you shouldn't even be traveling in the left lane, right? It's supposed to be you go around someone right and then you stay out of it. It's supposed to be that way here, too Boy, it ain't no, but if you got the chops you can travel in the fast lane As long as you're not holding people up the ones that are really like you need to go to jail or ones that are just Knowingly or like i'm driving the speed limit. So right right you don't own the road

Yeah, it's like well, there's 10 people behind you that you're holding up. So you're the one who goes to jail now in Georgia That's going to be tough to enforce Okay, well, it's totally subjective too. I mean it's like a cop can It's totally up to the cop to enforce or not, but yeah, it's still I just think it's a it's a grand gesture Agreed slow pokes. Okay. So if you want to learn more about uh Uh landslides you can type that word into the search bar at house2forks.com You should also check out geology.com. They have a really great um page with lots of different sub pages on landslides Yeah, and if you're in that area and have been impacted, we would love to hear from you

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