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Evaluation of seismic demand for earthquake-triggered landslides
, 2017 Landslides are one of the most commonly observed territorial effects after a strong-motion seismic event. Although landslides are considered a secondary hazard to human lives, as compared with the safety of the buildings, they can cause significant damage to infrastructure networks that determine problems in the immediate post-earthquake during the ...
TROPEANO, GIUSEPPE +2 more
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, 1992 Lakes have always held an aesthetic fascination for people; they figure prominently in both art and literature and have even been endowed with spiritual qualities. For example, the nineteenth century American writer Henry D.
Green, John D., Lowe, David J.
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Training of Crisis Mappers and Map Production from Multi-sensor Data: Vernazza Case Study (Cinque Terre National Park, Italy) [PDF]
, 2012 This aim of paper is to presents the development of a multidisciplinary project carried out by the cooperation between Politecnico di Torino and ITHACA (Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action).
Boccardo, Piero +7 more
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Great East Japan Earthquake, JR East Mitigation Successes, and Lessons for California High-Speed Rail, MTI Report 12-37 [PDF]
, 2015 California and Japan both experience frequent seismic activity, which is often damaging to infrastructure. Seismologists have developed systems for detecting and analyzing earthquakes in real-time.
Edwards, Frances, Goodrich, Daniel C.
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Sea-level–induced seismicity and submarine landslide occurrence: COMMENT [PDF]
Geology, 2014 Urlaub, M., Talling, P.J., Clare, M.
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Calculating Risk, Denying Uncertainty: Seismicity and Hydropower Development in Nepal [PDF]
, 2017 If Ulrich Beck’s definition of ‘risk society’ describes societies increasingly structured by preoccupations with future environmental threats and related insecurities created by modernization, then Nepal’s hydropower community would appear to ...
Butler, Christopher, Rest, Matthäus
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CIRSS vertical data integration, San Bernardino study [PDF]
The creation and use of a vertically integrated data base, including LANDSAT data, for local planning purposes in a portion of San Bernardino County, California are described.
Christenson, J., Hodson, W., Michel, R.
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Demonstration of Self-Updating Landslide Hazard Maps with Dynamic Crowd-Sourced Data in Rwanda [PDF]
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Anderson, E. R. +4 more
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Gas Blowout Workshop Lesson Plan: Landslide or Not? [PDF]
In this lesson, students apply principles of stratigraphy to investigate a large submarine landslide in the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina.
Cheryl Dodes
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