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A decade after the Oso landslide, WA works to improve preparedness

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The Oso landslide in Washington state killed six people and destroyed more than 100 homes. Congress is considering a bill to renew a national landslide research and mapping program. The next big thing is to ramp up post-wildfire debris flow monitoring. Washington and Oregon are among the most landslide-prone states in the country.

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A decade after the Oso landslide, WA works to improve preparedness

The rural residents and weekend visitors along Steelhead Drive had no time to react when a huge chunk of hillside broke loose above the North Fork Stillaguamish River 10 years ago this week. The fast-moving wave of mud and debris shattered the Saturday-morning peace near Oso in Snohomish County, and buried a riverfront neighborhood under 30 feet or more of mud. The 43 people who died there on March 22, 2014, will be remembered during the dedicat…

1 month ago·Seattle, United States

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