The following internet sites provide information about mass wasting. Most of the mass-wasting information on the web is about landslides since they're so destructive to people and property.

http://landslides.usgs.gov/
The United States Geological Survey's (USGS) landslide information site. This site includes information on the National Landslide Hazards Program and a searchable bibliographic database.

http://landslides.usgs.gov/slumtrip/slumtrip.htm
Take a virtual fieldtrip of a famous landslide in Colorado.

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/CALHAZ/hazardtype.html
Northern California Geologic Hazards website, maintained by the USGS. This site includes information about a wide variety of geohazards, but landslides, debris flows, and slope stability are included in the majority of topics.

http://www.king.ac.uk/~ce_s011/slides.htm
Professor Eddie Bromhead of Kingston University presents The Landslide Slide Show. This site contains information and many photos and maps about landslides outside of the United States.

http://anaheim-landslide.com/
Information about the devastating California Anaheim Hills landslide which occurred in January of 1993. Much of the material on this website discussed the politics and poor development planning that make some areas more landslide-prone than they might otherwise be.

http://www.usgs.gov/reports/open_file_reports/94-615/
An online report, from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), on the 1993 Tully Valley landslide in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

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