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 Sam January/February 2012 **Landslides,** ** Slide Into Your Knowledge! **   __**So, What Is This Page About?** __ Hello, and welcome to the 'Slide Into Your Knowledge' wiki, the everything wiki about landslides! My name is Sam and I am in 5th grade at [|MICDS] in[| Saint Louis]. My wiki is about how our geography can affect our life and our ways of living, mainly focused on landslides. A landslide is when rock tumbles down a slope usually due to erosion or weakness at the rock at the bottom. There are many sections to this blog so you can get the most out of every sentence. There will be pointers on do's and don't's, safety, mostly off of [|FEMA]; of before, during, and after a lnadslide. There will also be a part on the science of the landslide, in a power point form. Yet there is still more. There is s section for a time that a landslide has occurred, a historical event. Not only there is an current event, a landslide that has happened in the last year. I tried to organize this wiki so it is most convenient for you! I hope you enjoy this wiki and can find all you need! Enjoy.

__Wait, What's Going On Outside?__ Here are 2 widgets to tell what is going on in the Saint Louis area, in Fahrenheit form. Here is also a link here to the [|MICDS Weather Station]. There is a 5 day forecast with the high temperature and the low temperature.

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The Science of Landslides Here I have a power point presentation about the science of landslides. What do I mean? I have, on this power point, earth features and where? Why? And how? There are many reasons and things that have to do with landslides. Enjoy, and learn a lot. Here it is. It is called the '9 research questions. Just click on it.



Current Event __<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Landslide, In the News __ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">__Oak Creek__ __Power Plant__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">__Ash Landfill Could Have Caused Mud/Landslide__ <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">On October 31, 2011 a saturated type of ash is suspected to be the trigger of a landslide at Oak Creek Power Plant inWisconsinnear the Illinois border releasing chemicals and toxins intoLake Michigan. Oak Creek Power Plant is a coal powered power plant. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Coal ash is a byproduct of used/burnt coal that consists of very small elements by the name of fly ash. Coal ash contains of 24 or so pollutants, arsenic mercury, hexavalent, chromium and many more. These toxins are held responsible for many cancers, blood and kidney disorders, and nervous damage. In the ‘50s and ‘60s this fly ash was used to fill ravines and large gullies, illegally. There //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">was //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> a reaction to this mishap. Renee Michna lives a roughly a mile south of the plant is outraged about the lack of effort to clean up the mess. Fortunately for the people there the slide did not affect the drinking water. But this cannot be cleaned up until the soil has stabilized. There was a sample taken and it proved that there was no harmed water. The water facilities have their water intakes at 25 feet down and 5 thousand to 7 thousand feet off shore. This is convenient because oil floats it will be very difficult to suck in the oil. The in takers are also designed to not take in debris. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This article is important to science because it is very important to be able to recognize pollutes, bacteria, and germs; and to know how to capture them. There were many important details and facts but the 2 I picked up the on the most were the affect landslides can have on human population. Such as the toxins falling into the water; that could’ve been a big problem, fortunately it had no major impact. I also learned that landslides can be caused by humans! Did you only think that landslides were natural? Well in this case not. Take the factory and the coal ash away would’ve the slide happened? Yes? No? I would say no.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Article: <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Website off of USGS (United States Geological Survey) <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">By Kristen Zambo

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Historical Event

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">At 4:10 in the morning on April 29, 1903, 82million tons of rock and limestone, falling at 140 kilometers an hour, was hurtling down the side of Turtle Mountain into the small mining town of Frank, Alberta. Alberta's notorious 'Frank Slide' took of one half of the whole mountain claiming 70 victims dead, yet, in only 90 seconds. A landslide typically happens when erosion or a weakness in the rock at the summit cannot support the weight of the steep slope on top and the rock tumbles down it or slides down/collapses. A landslide usually happens during/after heavy rain or due to an earthquake and construction sites. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> Turtle Mountain, at the summit, had a big limestone overhang making it notoriously unstable. In the months leading up the tragic slide, there were smaller little rockfalls. There were warning but the town ignored them. But it bit them in the back. The people of the small mining town complained that some coal was slipping through their walls; the 2 foot square wood supporters were splintering. Then the mountain opened up. The 3 miners who came up for lunch near 4 died under the rubble. A big piece of limestone, 650m high, 150m thick and 1km wide, fell down. Some shards were as big as houses, tents were steamrolled and houses were smashed like an ant under you shoe. The slide was that powerful. For the other 17 or 16 miners who were still underground rushed the the entrance at the considerably loud sound only to find it blocked. Over the town a big cloud of limestone dust settled. The trapped miners had no choice but to try to dig to the top. Near 5pm, almost 13hours after the horrific slide, Dan Mackenzie's pic reflected the beaming sunlight! By nightfall of April 29, 1903, only 12 bodies were found. The citizens of Frank, Alberta ignored the warnings of a soon landslide, and they didn't evacuate after the previous smaller rockfalls. What were they thinking? They should have evacuated and called in a geologist. They should have heeded the warnings and left. They continued to mine through splintering wood and slipping coal. The mountain was obviously unstable and unreliable. The town completely ignored the many signals and they paid the price. Turtle mountain is overdue/expected to fall again in 10 or 10 million years. Geologists cannot afford the possible $1million seismic equipment to study why Turtle Mountain is notoriously unstable. Thanks to Ebsco articles, [|"Killer Landslide"] and The Day the [|"Monutain Moved"] I was able to make this paragraph.

__<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Safety __ <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">FEMA says before a landslide to know the land around you. In other words, know if there is erosion at the summit of your backyard. Know what the ground is like; is it a sponge or a rock. If you have a precipitous backyard to put in ground cover or a retaining wall. Know the land around you. [|FEMA]says during a landslide is never sleep. Many deaths are caused from sleeping. they say also to listen for abnormal or peculiar sounds meaning debris flow of slipping mud. If you cannot escape from inside a structure curl up into a tight ball and protect your neck and head. Last they say stay away from the 'crime scene' because of possible following slides. Check your house, the chimney, and the land around your house for any other damage. Damage to those can help you asses the safety of the area. Replant all eroded land and replace missing land to decrease chances of a collapse or another slide.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">**__Bibliography__** **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__:__ ** <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fick, Steven Vincent, Mary. "Killer Landslide." //Canadian Geographic// 123.2 (2003): 32. //Middle Search Plus//. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Bergman, Brian. "The Day The Mountain Moved." //Maclean's// 116.17 (2003): 58. //Middle Search Plus//. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Anderson, John F. "Landslide" World Book Vol.12 <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">"Landslide" Anonymous author. Science Encyclopedia Vol 11. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[]

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