Wednesday 17 February 2016

Where On Google Earth #529

WOGE 528 was quite easy to solve - the problem for me as a non-geologist was to identify the geological feature at this location. 

Luckily Google was able to help me out with a link to a Scientific American blog (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/january-11-1771-the-birthday-of-lake-alleghe/) with details on the catastrophic landslide event that occurred in January 1771, and resulted in Lake Alleghe forming in this location.

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3 comments:

  1. Unknown17 February 2016 at 18:19

    44°51′10″N 111°23′20″W - Quake lake, Montana, USA

    Another landslide lake, this time, an earthquake-caused one!

    The Quake Lake is a 58 m deep and 9.7 km long lake and was created after a 7,3/7,5 Richter scale earthquake struck on August 17, 1959, which formed a landslide dam on the Madison River.

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  2. Andrew17 February 2016 at 18:29

    Luis-Filipe: you are correct!

    Video on the event: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0CIp7Ygj8

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  3. Unknown18 February 2016 at 20:44

    And #530 is here: http://woge-luis.blogspot.pt/2016/02/530.html

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