The largest subaerial (on land) landslide in Earth's recorded history was connected with the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state, USA. That landslide had a volume of 2.8 cubic kilometers of material and the landslide traveled about 22.5 kilometers down the North Fork Toutle River. The landslide depth was 150 feet with a maximum depth of 600 feet. The landslide velocity was somewhere between 70 and 150 miles per hour.

Palu, a city in Indonesia, had a tsunami, and an earthquake, and debatably, that all started with an underwater landslide. The underwater landslide was very big for a landslide and ended up causing huge devastation on the surrounding areas.