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Sizing up the Landslide at Bingham Canyon Mine

A massive landslide occurred at Utah’s Bingham Canyon Mine on April 10, 2013. It was the largest non-volcanic landslide on record in North America.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. The 2011 aerial photograph is from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Jeffrey Moore (University of Utah).

Published June 13, 2013
Data acquired May 2, 2013

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