For the 1959 Pandemonium Creek Landslide in British Columbia,a Velocity

question 72

Multiple Choice

For the 1959 Pandemonium Creek landslide in British Columbia,a velocity of 290 km/hr was estimated by

• A) acquiring transmission data from sequential cutting of telegraph cables.
• B) measuring superelevation data from the run-up zone.
• C) first-hand accounts of surveyors monitoring the region.
• D) measuring the distance the flow travelled.
• E) measuring the scour depth in the source region.

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