I am only listing the URL since I don't have a license to upload the image below which is owned by the Baltimore Sun, I think. Sorry for the lack of immediate gratification. This photo shows the recent Oso, Washington landslide on the extreme left. Notice the bumpy or hummocky area immediately below the fresh fault scarp. This is a typical feature of landslides. However, immediately to the right of that brand new fault scarp, there is another ancient fault scarp with the typical hummocky outflow area below it. AND further right pass the road (which may itself be on an outflow from a landslide) there is another prominent fault scarp with another typical hummocky outflow below it.
Oso landslide
Here is the text for the link in case the above link doesn't work:
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/...
Of course, I feel badly for the loss of life, but whoever decided this would be a good place to live apparently didn't know anything about geology.
The next time you hear someone complaining about zoning laws and the cost of maintaining government agencies to warn the population about geologic hazards, you might want to consider the cost of this tragedy in human lives and money. Perhaps there were warnings made to the people that live here, but I am speculating there were not.
UPDATE: thanks to Jan4insight for this link to article about previous warnings
There were warnings!
UPDATE2: and in this article brought to my attention by my Geomorphologist friend, Ann Youberg, you can see an image that shows where ANOTHER SLIDE OCCURRED IN PRECISELY THE SAME ARE IN 2006, yet when a geomorphologist went to see the slide after it happened he saw new houses being built adjacent to that slide!!!
This slide in same area as 2006 slide!