It was the largest known debris avalanche in recorded history.

A mixture of these materials is a debris avalanche.

The debris avalanche had an average thickness of forty meters.

They still have a long way ahead of themselves when they are surprised by a debris avalanche.

In Hawaii, landslides of this nature are called debris avalanches.

These dimensions set it apart from most other known terrestrial debris avalanches.

Debris avalanches occurred on hillsides with a slope greater than 35 percent.

Steep sea cliffs can also be caused by catastrophic debris avalanches.

Debris avalanches can also travel well past the foot of the slope due to their tremendous speed.

Debris avalanche blocks are identifiable because they keep their internal stratigraphy.

This is much slower than a debris avalanche.

Analysis of the motion of a debris avalanche event.

This caused a debris avalanche, burying the town of Yungay and killing 20,000 people.

He also coauthored works with other volcanologists that focused on debris avalanches.

Parts of the Socompa debris avalanche overlie the field.

Debris avalanches are very fast and the entire mass seems to liquefy as it slides down the slope.

A massive debris avalanche was triggered by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale.

Lava flows, debris avalanches, and explosive blasts have devastated communities.

Geologists created the term "debris avalanche" to describe the Frank Slide.

Debris avalanches differ from debris slides because their movement is much more rapid.

One debris avalanche is attributed to hydraulic erosion rather than Coulomb shear.

Typical features of mount Bandai's activity are debris avalanches and sector collapses.

A central cone that formed inside the younger caldera was breached to the west by a large debris avalanche about 4200 years ago.

Nine different debris avalanche headscarps that are representative of these four classes are studied in detail.

The non-ice remnants form debris avalanches descending from the slopes of the crater walls.