The most common type were rock falls, followed by debris slides, slumps, earth slides, rock-block slides and rock avalanches.
Occasionally there are rock avalanches, landslides or mudflows.
Dynamics of rock avalanches and other types of mass movements.
Had this volume been released instantaneously, a devastating rock avalanche and far reaching deposit would have resulted.
A big rock avalanche hit the city of Fethiye (Turkey).
On the two major sides of the summit, headwalls show where past rock avalanches occurred.
Many landslides and rock avalanches were triggered by the earthquake and are associated with the mapped zones of surface rupture.
Bass kills several of the scalphunters, by intentionally starting a rock avalanche in the mountains near where they are situated.
The main Mount Meager landslide with known casualties was a massive rock avalanche that occurred on July 22, 1975.
Samurai were fighting the fires and digging at the rock avalanche to find the buried.