Maynard: Cincinnati is landslide capital of the U.S.
Professor Barry Maynard of the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Geology says that Cincinnati is the landslide capital of the U.S., spending more money per capita than Los Angeles and San Francisco.
One would expect Los Angeles to be the landslide capital of the U.S.
But in an interview with WCPO’s Tom McKee, professor Barry Maynard and professor emeritus Paul Potter from the University of Cincinnati’s Department of Geology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences say that the honor goes to the Queen City.
“Per capita, we spend more than Los Angeles or San Francisco,” Maynard says.
Maynard says that very steep hillsides, underlaid by very soft rock, are the cause for our frequent events, and that, without proper engineering, builders can add to the problem.
“What we’re seeing is that although God makes landslides, human beings speed them up a lot,” he says.
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