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View article: Assessing locations susceptible to shallow landslide initiation during prolonged intense rainfall in the Lares, Utuado, and Naranjito municipalities of Puerto Rico
Assessing locations susceptible to shallow landslide initiation during prolonged intense rainfall in the Lares, Utuado, and Naranjito municipalities of Puerto Rico Open
Hurricane Maria induced about 70 000 landslides throughout Puerto Rico, USA, including thousands each in three municipalities situated in Puerto Rico's rugged Cordillera Central range. By combining a nonlinear soil-depth model, presumed we…
View article: Reply on RC1
Reply on RC1 Open
Abstract. Hurricane María induced about 70,000 landslides throughout Puerto Rico, USA, including thousands each in three municipalities situated in Puerto Rico’s rugged Cordillera Central range. By combining a nonlinear soil-depth model, p…
View article: Comment on nhess-2023-185
Comment on nhess-2023-185 Open
Abstract. Hurricane María induced about 70,000 landslides throughout Puerto Rico, USA, including thousands each in three municipalities situated in Puerto Rico’s rugged Cordillera Central range. By combining a nonlinear soil-depth model, p…
View article: Assessing Locations Susceptible to Landslide Initiation During Prolonged Intense Rainfall in the Lares, Utuado, and Naranjito Municipios of Puerto Rico
Assessing Locations Susceptible to Landslide Initiation During Prolonged Intense Rainfall in the Lares, Utuado, and Naranjito Municipios of Puerto Rico Open
Hurricane María induced about 70,000 landslides throughout Puerto Rico, USA, including thousands each in three municipalities situated in Puerto Rico’s rugged Cordillera Central range. By combining a nonlinear soil-depth model, presumed we…
View article: Distribution of large boulders on the deposit of the West Salt Creek rock avalanche, western Colorado
Distribution of large boulders on the deposit of the West Salt Creek rock avalanche, western Colorado Open
First posted July 14, 2023 For additional information, contact: Director, Geologic Hazards Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, Mail Stop 966Denver, CO 80225 On May 25, 2014, a 54.5-million cubic meter rock avalanche in the West …
View article: HydroMet: A New Code for Automated Objective Optimization of Hydrometeorological Thresholds for Landslide Initiation
HydroMet: A New Code for Automated Objective Optimization of Hydrometeorological Thresholds for Landslide Initiation Open
Landslide detection and warning systems are important tools for mitigation of potential hazards in landslide prone areas. Traditionally, warning systems for shallow landslides have been informed by rainfall intensity-duration thresholds. M…
View article: When hazard avoidance is not an option: lessons learned from monitoring the postdisaster Oso landslide, USA
When hazard avoidance is not an option: lessons learned from monitoring the postdisaster Oso landslide, USA Open
On 22 March 2014, a massive, catastrophic landslide occurred near Oso, Washington, USA, sweeping more than 1 km across the adjacent valley flats and killing 43 people. For the following 5 weeks, hundreds of workers engaged in an exhaustive…
View article: Incorporating the Effects of Complex Soil Layering and Thickness Local Variability into Distributed Landslide Susceptibility Assessments
Incorporating the Effects of Complex Soil Layering and Thickness Local Variability into Distributed Landslide Susceptibility Assessments Open
Incorporating the influence of soil layering and local variability into the parameterizations of physics-based numerical models for distributed landslide susceptibility assessments remains a challenge. Typical applications employ substanti…
View article: Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations
Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations Open
Detailed information about landslide occurrence is the foundation for advancing process understanding, susceptibility mapping, and risk reduction. Despite the recent revolution in digital elevation data and remote sensing technologies, lan…
View article: Physically Based Estimation of Rainfall Thresholds Triggering Shallow Landslides in Volcanic Slopes of Southern Italy
Physically Based Estimation of Rainfall Thresholds Triggering Shallow Landslides in Volcanic Slopes of Southern Italy Open
On the 4th and 5th of March 2005, about 100 rainfall-induced landslides occurred along volcanic slopes of Camaldoli Hill in Naples, Italy. These started as soil slips in the upper substratum of incoherent and welded volcaniclastic deposits…
View article: Constraining parameter uncertainty in modeling debris-flow initiation during the September 2013 Colorado Front Range storm
Constraining parameter uncertainty in modeling debris-flow initiation during the September 2013 Colorado Front Range storm Open
The occurrence of debris flows during the September 2013 northern Colorado floods took the emergency management community by surprise. The September 2013 debris flows in the Colorado Front Range initiated from shallow landslides in colluvi…
View article: THRESH—Software for tracking rainfall thresholds for landslide and debris-flow occurrence, user manual
THRESH—Software for tracking rainfall thresholds for landslide and debris-flow occurrence, user manual Open
First posted February 28, 2018 For additional information, contact: Director, Geologic Hazards Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, MS 966Denver, CO 80225-0046 Precipitation thresholds are used in many areas to provide early warn…
View article: Field and Laboratory Hydraulic Characterization of Landslide‐Prone Soils in the Oregon Coast Range and Implications for Hydrologic Simulation
Field and Laboratory Hydraulic Characterization of Landslide‐Prone Soils in the Oregon Coast Range and Implications for Hydrologic Simulation Open
Core Ideas Laboratory hydraulic parameters differ substantially from values estimated from field data. Hydraulic parameters determined in the laboratory overestimate hysteresis magnitude. Field data‐based model parameterizations may simula…
View article: Map data showing concentration of landslides caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Map data showing concentration of landslides caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico Open
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico as a category 4 storm. Heavy rainfall caused landslides in mountainous regions throughout the territory. This data release presents geospatial data describing the…
View article: Thresh - Software for Tracking Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide and Debris Flow Occurrence, Code Repository
Thresh - Software for Tracking Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide and Debris Flow Occurrence, Code Repository Open
The precipitation tracking program, thresh, is a Fortran program designed for computing various measures of precipitation for comparison against established or trial thresholds for landslide occurrence. The program computes cumulative prec…
View article: Results of hydrologic monitoring on landslide-prone coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington
Results of hydrologic monitoring on landslide-prone coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington Open
First posted August 31, 2017 For additional information, contact: Director, Geologic Hazards Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, MS-966Denver, CO 80225 A hydrologic monitoring network was installed to investigate landslide hazar…
View article: Precipitation thresholds for landslide occurrence near Seattle, Mukilteo, and Everett, Washington
Precipitation thresholds for landslide occurrence near Seattle, Mukilteo, and Everett, Washington Open
First posted April 27, 2017 For additional information, contact: Director, Geologic Hazards Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, MS–966Denver, CO 80225-0046https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geohazards/ Shallow landslides along coastal…
View article: Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides
Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides Open
The widespread availability of high resolution digital elevation models (DEM) opens the possibility of applying physically based models of landslide initiation to large areas. With increasing size of the study area and resolution of the DE…
View article: Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides
Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides Open
The widespread availability of high resolution digital elevation models (DEM) opens the possibility of applying physically based models of landslide initiation to large areas. With increasing size of the study area and resolution of the DE…
View article: Elucidating the role of vegetation in the initiation of rainfall‐induced shallow landslides: Insights from an extreme rainfall event in the Colorado Front Range
Elucidating the role of vegetation in the initiation of rainfall‐induced shallow landslides: Insights from an extreme rainfall event in the Colorado Front Range Open
More than 1100 debris flows were mobilized from shallow landslides during a rainstorm from 9 to 13 September 2013 in the Colorado Front Range, with the vast majority initiating on sparsely vegetated, south facing terrain. To investigate th…
View article: Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides
Evaluation of the parallel performance of the TRIGRS v2.1 model for rainfall-induced landslides Open
The widespread availability of high resolution digital elevation models (DEM) opens the possibility of applying physically based models of landslide initiation to large areas. With increasing size of the study area and resolution of the DE…
View article: Supplemental material: Rock-avalanche dynamics revealed by large-scale field mapping and seismic signals at a highly mobile avalanche in the West Salt Creek valley, western Colorado
Supplemental material: Rock-avalanche dynamics revealed by large-scale field mapping and seismic signals at a highly mobile avalanche in the West Salt Creek valley, western Colorado Open
Geosphere, April 2016, v. 12, p. 607-631, doi:10.1130/GES01265.1, Supplemental Figure - Structure map of the West Salt Creek rock avalanche. File size is ~44 MB.
View article: Rock-avalanche dynamics revealed by large-scale field mapping and seismic signals at a highly mobile avalanche in the West Salt Creek valley, western Colorado
Rock-avalanche dynamics revealed by large-scale field mapping and seismic signals at a highly mobile avalanche in the West Salt Creek valley, western Colorado Open
On 25 May 2014, a rain-on-snow–induced rock avalanche occurred in the West Salt Creek valley on the northern flank of Grand Mesa in western Colorado (United States). The avalanche mobilized from a preexisting rock slide in the Green River …
View article: Map data and Unmanned Aircraft System imagery from the May 25, 2014 West Salt Creek rock avalanche in western Colorado
Map data and Unmanned Aircraft System imagery from the May 25, 2014 West Salt Creek rock avalanche in western Colorado Open
On May 25, 2014, a rain-on-snow induced rock avalanche occurred in the West Salt Creek Valley on the northern flank of Grand Mesa in western Colorado. The avalanche traveled 4.6 km down the confined valley, killing 3 people. The avalanche …
View article: Assessing landslide potential on coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington—Geologic site characterization for hydrologic monitoring
Assessing landslide potential on coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington—Geologic site characterization for hydrologic monitoring Open
First posted July 1, 2016 For additional information, contact: Center Director, Geologic Hazards Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, MS 966Denver, CO 80225-0046 http://geohazards.usgs.gov/ During the summer 2015, the U.S. Geolog…
View article: Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster
Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster Open
Landslides reflect landscape instability that evolves over meteorological and geological timescales, and they also pose threats to people, property, and the environment. The severity of these threats depends largely on landslide speed and …