This week, the Seattle Times took home a Pulitzer for its coverage of the 2014 Oso landslide, a nasty disaster in Washington that killed 43 people.
It's unusual for a landslide this deadly to hit the United States. But they're common in many other parts of the world. This spring alone, deadly slides have struck in Peru, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kashmir, and Myanmar—and that's only what appears at the top of a Google News search.
