Rising 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) above the Samoan island of Ta’u, Mount Lata is an active volcano. One of its sides collapsed in landslides that left a steep escarpment primed for further catastrophic landslides and possibly tsunamis. (Photo by Jeff Standish, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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