Landslide Detectives
Topics: Climate, Geology, Television
Science Education Collections: Grade 6, HS Earth Science
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With its rolling hills and winter storms, the Bay Area has been a landslide hotspot, putting houses and lives at risk. Now geologists are using new high-tech tools to understand and predict these natural disasters.
Tags: Berkeley, kqed, landslide, mud slide, pbs, QUEST, usgsAdditional Links
- Discuss the Landslide Detectives TV story
- More photos from this story - Landslide Detectives flickr set
- US Geological Survey - Northern California Group
- USGS Google Earth Tour
- UC Berkeley Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
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