Landslide classification
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Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016 Open
Landslides are a ubiquitous hazard in terrestrial environments with slopes, incurring human fatalities in urban settlements, along transport corridors and at sites of rural industry. Assessment of landslide risk requires high-quality lands…
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Earthquake‐Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts Open
Large earthquakes initiate chains of surface processes that last much longer than the brief moments of strong shaking. Most moderate‐ and large‐magnitude earthquakes trigger landslides, ranging from small failures in the soil cover to mass…
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The size, distribution, and mobility of landslides caused by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal Open
Coseismic landslides pose immediate and prolonged hazards to mountainous communities, and provide a rare opportunity to study the effect of large earthquakes on erosion and sediment budgets. By mapping landslides using high-resolution sate…
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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 …
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Rainfall Induced Landslide Studies in Indian Himalayan Region: A Critical Review Open
Landslides are one of the most devastating and recurring natural disasters and have affected several mountainous regions across the globe. The Indian Himalayan region is no exception to landslide incidences affecting key economic sectors s…
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On the characteristics of landslide tsunamis Open
This review presents modelling techniques and processes that govern landslide tsunami generation, with emphasis on tsunamis induced by fully submerged landslides. The analysis focuses on a set of representative examples in simplified geome…
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Landslide susceptibility mapping of the Sera River Basin using logistic regression model Open
Of the natural hazards in Turkey, landslides are the second most devastating in terms of socio-economic losses, with the majority of landslides occurring in the Eastern Black Sea Region. The aim of this study is to use a statistical approa…
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Factors controlling landslide frequency–area distributions Open
A power‐law relation for the frequency–area distribution (FAD) of medium and large landslides (e.g. tens to millions of square meters) has been observed by numerous authors. But the FAD of small landslides diverges from the power‐law distr…
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Roads and landslides in Nepal: how development affects environmental risk Open
The number of deaths from landslides in Nepal has been increasing dramatically due to a complex combination of earthquakes, climate change, and an explosion of informal road construction that destabilizes slopes during the rainy season. Th…
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Analysing post-earthquake landslide activity using multi-temporal landslide inventories near the epicentral area of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake Open
Large earthquakes in mountainous regions may trigger thousands of landslides, some active for years. We analysed the changes in landslide activity near the epicentre of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake by generating five landslide inventories …
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Geomorphic indexing of landslide dams evolution Open
Landslide dams are rather common events in hilly and mountainous areas and they occur when a landslide reaches a valley floor closing the riverbed. If they form a lake basin, unstable landslide dams can have catastrophic consequences when …
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A seismologically consistent expression for the total area and volume of earthquake‐triggered landsliding Open
We present a new, seismologically consistent expression for the total area and volume of populations of earthquake‐triggered landslides. This model builds on a set of scaling relationships between key parameters, such as landslide spatial …
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Spatial distributions of earthquake-induced landslides and hillslope preconditioning in the northwest South Island, New Zealand Open
Current models to explain regional-scale landslide events are not able to account for the possible effects of the legacy of previous earthquakes, which have triggered landslides in the past and are known to drive damage accumulation in bri…
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Long-term erosion of the Nepal Himalayas by bedrock landsliding: the role of monsoons, earthquakes and giant landslides Open
In active mountain belts with steep terrain, bedrock landsliding is a major erosional agent. In the Himalayas, landsliding is driven by annual hydro-meteorological forcing due to the summer monsoon and by rarer, exceptional events, such as…
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Widespread Initiation, Reactivation, and Acceleration of Landslides in the Northern California Coast Ranges due to Extreme Rainfall Open
Episodically to continuously active slow‐moving landslides are driven by precipitation. Climate change, which is altering both the frequency and magnitude of precipitation worldwide, is therefore predicted to have a major impact on landsli…
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Physical and Anthropogenic Factors Related to Landslide Activity in the Northern Peloponnese, Greece Open
The geological, geomorphic conditions of a mountainous environment along with precipitation and human activities influence landslide occurrences. In many cases, their relation to landslide events is not well defined. The scope of the prese…
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Landslide Identification and Monitoring along the Jinsha River Catchment (Wudongde Reservoir Area), China, Using the InSAR Method Open
Landslide identification and monitoring are two significant research aspects for landslide analysis. In addition, landslide mode deduction is key for the prevention of landslide hazards. Surface deformation results with different scales ca…
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Connectivity of earthquake‐triggered landslides with the fluvial network: Implications for landslide sediment transport after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake Open
Evaluating the influence of earthquakes on erosion, landscape evolution, and sediment‐related hazards requires understanding fluvial transport of material liberated in earthquake‐triggered landslides. The location of landslides relative to…
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Global fatal landslide occurrence 2004 to 2016 Open
Landslides are a ubiquitous hazard in terrestrial environments with slopes, incurring human fatalities in urban settlements, along transport corridors, or at sites of rural industry. Assessment of landslide risk requires high quality lands…
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Forecasting the magnitude of potential landslides based on InSAR techniques Open
A new method, combining empirical modeling with time series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data, is proposed to provide an assessment of potential landslide volume and area. The method was developed to evaluate potential …
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Landslide susceptibility mapping using logistic regression model (a case study in Badulla District, Sri Lanka) Open
The landslide is a universal term covering a wide variety of mass movements and processes involved in downward movement of masses of rock, earth or debris under the influence of gravity. Landslides are among the natural disasters that are …
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Runout evaluation of Oso landslide with the material point method Open
Long runout landslides can cause significant damage and represent one of the most important problems in geotechnical engineering. Understanding the mechanics of the landslide runout process is important for risk assessment and is challengi…
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Landslides triggered by the Gorkha earthquake in the Langtang valley, volumes and initiation processes Open
The Gorkha earthquake (Nepal, 2015, M w 7.9) triggered many landslides. The most catastrophic mass movement was a debris avalanche that buried several villages in the Langtang valley. In this study, questions are raised about its volume an…
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Analysis of Rainfall-Induced Landslide on Unsaturated Soil Slopes Open
This paper investigates rainfall-induced landslides on partially saturated soil slopes using the 2011 Umyeonsan landslides at the center of Seoul, Korea. An integrated analysis of rainfall-induced landslide was carried out through laborato…
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Rainfall triggers more deep-seated landslides than Cascadia earthquakes in the Oregon Coast Range, USA Open
Deep-seated landslides in the central Oregon Coast Range are triggered mostly by rainfall, not large Cascadia earthquakes.
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Some giant submarine landslides do not produce large tsunamis Open
Landslides are the second most important cause of tsunamis after earthquakes, and their potential for generating large tsunamis depend on the slide process. Among the world's largest submarine landslides is the Storegga Slide that generate…
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Prediction of the area affected by earthquake-induced landsliding based on seismological parameters Open
We present an analytical, seismologically consistent expression for the surface area of the region within which most landslides triggered by an earthquake are located (landslide distribution area). This expression is based on scaling laws …
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Clayey Landslide Initiation and Acceleration Strongly Modulated by Soil Swelling Open
Largely unknown mechanisms restrain motion of clay‐rich, slow‐moving landslides that are widespread worldwide and rarely accelerate catastrophically. We studied a clayey, slow‐moving landslide typical of thousands in Northern California, U…
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Landslide Susceptibility Analysis: A Logistic Regression Model Case Study in Coonoor, India Open
Landslides are a common geologic hazard that disrupts the social and economic balance of the affected society. Therefore, identifying zones prone to landslides is necessary for safe living and the minimal disruption of economic activities …
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Storm-triggered landslides in the Peruvian Andes and implications for topography, carbon cycles, and biodiversity Open
In this study, we assess the geomorphic role of a rare, large-magnitude landslide-triggering event and consider its effect on mountain forest ecosystems and the erosion of organic carbon in an Andean river catchment. Proximal triggers such…