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Many landslides are triggered by excess precipitation. In the eastern part of China, landslides caused by extreme rainfall from typhoons in the monsoon season are the main geomorphological process with catastrophic impacts on society and the environment.
Haiyan Qin, Jun He, Jian Guo, Lu Cai
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Basin scale assessment of landslides geomorphological setting by advanced InSAR analysis [PDF]
An extensive investigation of more than 90 landslides affecting a small river basin in Central Italy was performed by combining field surveys and remote sensing techniques.
Alfredo Rocca +5 more
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Earthquake-triggered damming landslides threaten downstream residents and affect the regional landscape by disrupting water and sediment fluxes. Therefore, it is essential to study the distribution characteristics and distinctive controlling factors of ...
Weiheng Zhang +5 more
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Evaluation and comparison of bivariate and multivariate statistical methods for landslide susceptibility mapping (case study: Zab Basin) [PDF]
Landslides are among the great destructive factors which cause lots of fatalities and financial losses all over the world every year. Studying of the factors affecting occurrence of landslides in a region and zoning the resulting damages will certainly ...
Ahmad, Baharin, Khezri, S., Shahabi, H.
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SIMULASI PENGUKURAN LONGSOR PADA KELERENGAN DAN KEDALAMAN BIDANG GELINCIR YANG BERBEDA
Landslide is one of the geological disasters that often occurs in Indonesia. Landslides can be caused by several factors; there are human factors and natural factors.
Pilya Tri Oktafiani +2 more
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Landslides/Landslide Mitigation [PDF]
Abstract Provides a variety of case histories, methodology to help identify, quantify, and mitigate landlsides, and legal cases affecting engineering geology. Part I provides basic information to aid in assessing geologic hazards related to compound landslides, surficial slope failures, and causes of distress to residential construction.
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Landsliding and its multiscale influence on mountainscapes [PDF]
Landsliding is a complex process that modifies mountainscapes worldwide. Its severe and sometimes long-lasting negative effects contrast with the less-documented positive effects on ecosystems, raising numerous questions about the dual role of ...
Bussmann, R. +3 more
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Environmental Laws in Nigeria and Occurrence of Some Geohazards: A Review [PDF]
Nigeria as a country is blessed with an abundance of both human and natural resources. Exploitation of natural resources in Nigeria over the years with little or no regard for the environment has increased susceptibility of parts of the country to ...
C. N. Chibo, I. E. Osumgborogwu
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A cellular automaton for the factor of safety field in landslides modeling [PDF]
Landslide inventories show that the statistical distribution of the area of recorded events is well described by a power law over a range of decades.
Cataudella, V. +4 more
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Traditional methods for monitoring surface deformation of landslides have significant limitations, including small monitoring coverage, difficulty in acquiring information in complex terrains, and high economic costs.
Wenzheng XU +3 more
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