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View article: Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetation regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland
Landsliding follows signatures of wildfire history and vegetation regrowth in a steep coastal shrubland Open
Five years after the deadly and destructive 9 January 2018 Montecito debris flows (Santa Barbara County, California, USA), an atmospheric river storm on 9 January 2023 triggered widespread landsliding that affected many of the same drainag…
View article: National strategy for landslide loss reduction
National strategy for landslide loss reduction Open
First posted September 28, 2022 For additional information, contact: Landslide Hazards ProgramNatural Hazards Mission AreaU.S. Geological Survey12201 Sunrise Valley DriveReston, VA 20192Contact Pubs Warehouse Landslide hazards are present …
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: Landslides triggered by the August 14, 2021, magnitude 7.2 Nippes, Haiti, earthquake
Landslides triggered by the August 14, 2021, magnitude 7.2 Nippes, Haiti, earthquake Open
First posted December 22, 2021 For additional information, contact: Director, Geologic Hazards Science CenterU.S. Geological SurveyBox 25046, MS 966Denver, CO 80225
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: Data for: Building a landslide climate indicator with machine learning and land surface models
Data for: Building a landslide climate indicator with machine learning and land surface models Open
This is the model dump file provided by XGBoost. This model has not been validated for use in regions other than the Pacific Northwest of the United States, nor with input data other than NCA-LDAS. This model was created to describe the se…
View article: Building a landslide hazard indicator with machine learning and land surface models
Building a landslide hazard indicator with machine learning and land surface models Open
The U.S. Pacific Northwest has a history of frequent and occasionally deadly landslides caused by various factors. Using a multivariate, machine-learning approach, we combined a Pacific Northwest Landslide Inventory with a 36-year gridded …
View article: 4000-year history of debris flows in north-central Washington State, USA: preliminary results from trenching and surficial geologic mapping at the Pope Creek fan
4000-year history of debris flows in north-central Washington State, USA: preliminary results from trenching and surficial geologic mapping at the Pope Creek fan Open
Long-term records of the magnitude and frequency of debris flows on fans are rare, but such records provide critical information needed for debris-flow hazard and risk assessments. This study explores the history of debris flows on a fan w…