A Town Buried in Seconds; Canada's Frank Landslide

In only 100 seconds, a Canadian town in Alberta was partially buried by one of the largest landslides the nation has ever seen. This is the story of the 1903 Frank Slide, which forever changed the field of geology. To this day, the landslide in question remains Canada's deadliest on record.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] Jaboyedoff, Michel & Couture, Réjean & Locat, Pascal. (2009). Structural analysis of Turtle Mountain (Alberta) using digital elevation model: Toward a progressive failure. Geomorphology. 103. 5-16. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.012.
[2] Allstadt, K. (2013), Extracting source characteristics and dynamics of the August 2010 Mount Meager landslide from broadband seismograms, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 118, 1472–1490, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20110.
[3] Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S..., CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] Jaboyedoff, Michel & Couture, Réjean & Locat, Pascal. (2009). Structural analysis of Turtle Mountain (Alberta) using digital elevation model: Toward a progressive failure. Geomorphology. 103. 5-16. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.04.012.
[2] Allstadt, K. (2013), Extracting source characteristics and dynamics of the August 2010 Mount Meager landslide from broadband seismograms, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 118, 1472–1490, doi:10.1002/jgrf.20110.
[3] Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_S..., CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

0:00 Frank Slide
1:32 Landslide Size
2:24 Brick Analogy
2:50 Landslide Causes