On Apr 10 , 2013 , a gigantic chunk of public as well as rocks gave away as well as crashed into the humongous pit created yesteryear copper mining at the Bingham Canyon Mine inwards Utah , the United States. Approximately 65 to seventy i grand 1000 cubic meters of debris thundered downwardly the walls of the mine reaching speeds upwards to 100 miles per hour. The effect was as well as thence large that it shook the public as well as the tremors were picked upwards yesteryear seismic sensors designed to tape earthquakes. The intensity recorded yesteryear the instruments measured 2.5 inwards Richter Scale. In other words , the landslide felt similar a 2.5 quake.
The incident was the largest non-volcanic landslide inwards the modern history of North America , as well as it occurred inwards the largest man-made digging inwards the world.
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