• Earthflows consist of slightly higher amounts of water than soil slumps, but less than a mudflow. Like mudflows they are generally triggered by heavy precipitation or snowmelt events. They take many lives each year.

The photograph on the right illustrates a rather large earthflow (for scale, one person is standing on the right side of the flow, another is at the base on the road.) Terracing of the hillside may have contributed to this event.