Koshe Disaster: What Causes Garbage Landslides?

The tragedy isn't the first of its kind, according to a piece on the disaster in the American Geophysical Union's Landslide Blog, but it is the deadliest such incident in years."Garbage landslides are particularly horrible events," Dave Petley, a blogger and geoscientist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, wrote in a 2008 post about the phenomena.Petley wrote the 2008 blog post in response to a garbage slide in Guatemala City, in which the deadly conditions were much like those