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Largest Landslide

  • April 19, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The world’s largest known landslide happened 10,000 years ago in Saidmareh, Iran. It covered an area of about 64 square miles, the size of a small city! Some of the rocks and other debris in the slide traveled more than nine miles.

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