Earth: Seismic activity reveals landslides: Earthquake monitoring system can detect rock avalanches.

The article discusses a study by geophysicist Colin Stark at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York in the March 22, 2013 issue of the journal "Science" reporting an earthquake monitoring system that can detect rock avalanches. Topics include factors contributing to landslide strikes, the analysis of seismic activity to predict landslides, and the method's ability to calculate a landslide's magnitude.