Mission Peak Landslide near the city of Fremont, Alameda County, California

Headwall escarpment of the Mission Peak Landslide (Alameda County). Large fissures in the slope above the landslide ominously suggest that additional landslides will likely happen here in the future. The Mission Peak Landslide of March 22, 1998 represents a partial reactivation of an enormous bedrock landslide complex. The massive landslide complex has developed beneath Mission Ridge over a period of perhaps tens of thousands of years.

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