Multi-hazard risk assessment using GIS in urban areas: a case study for the city of Turrialba, Costa Rica [PDF]
, 2002 In the framework of the UNESCO sponsored project on “Capacity Building for Natural Disaster Reduction” a case study was carried out on multi-hazard risk assessment of the city of Turrialba, located in the central part of Costa Rica.
Badilla Coto, Elena +3 more
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Study on the Dynamic Response of Landslide Subjected to Earthquake by the Improved DDA Method
Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, 2021 Majiagou landslide, a major ancient landslide in Three Gorges Reservoir region, is located in the high earthquake area of southwest China. The 2013 Badong earthquake caused an obvious deformation of landslide monitored by the sliding inclinometer.
Xiu-Li Zhang +3 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Monitoring the change of post-seismic landslides could provide valuable information for geological disaster treatment. The 2017 Jiuzhaigou Ms 7.0 earthquake has triggered a large number of landslides in the Jiuzhaigou United Nations Educational ...
Xinyi Guo +14 more
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Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2015 A new data set of landslides that caused loss of life in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 10-year period from 2004 and 2013 inclusive has been compiled, providing new insight into the impact of landslides in this key part of the world.
Petley, D. N., Sepúlveda, S. A.
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
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Criteria for rapid sliding I.: a review of Vaiont case [PDF]
, 2010 Vaiont slide has been represented by a model of two interacting evolutive wedges. Mass conservation during the motion implies that the upper wedge transfers mass to the lower one through an internal shearing plane.
Alonso Pérez de Agreda, Eduardo +1 more
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Slider-Block Friction Model for Landslides: Application to Vaiont and La Clapiere Landslides [PDF]
, 2003 Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found empirically to follow a time-to-failure power law, corresponding to a finite-time singularity of the velocity $v \sim 1/(t_c-t)$ [{\it Voight}, 1988].
A. Helmstetter +51 more
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Landslide Susceptibility Mapping and Interpretation in the Upper Minjiang River Basin
Remote Sensing, 2023 To enable the accurate assessment of landslide susceptibility in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River Basin, this research intends to spatially compare landslide susceptibility maps obtained from unclassified landslides directly and the spatial ...
Xin Wang, Shibiao Bai
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Landslide Risk: Economic Valuation in the North-Eastern Zone of Medellin City [PDF]
, 2017 Natural disasters of a geodynamic nature can cause enormous economic and human losses. The economic costs of a landslide disaster include relocation of communities and physical repair of urban infrastructure.
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Towards Automatic Landslide-Quake Identification Using a Random Forest Classifier
Applied Sciences, 2020 Landslide-generated seismic waves (landslide-quakes), exhibiting distinctive waveforms and frequency characteristics, can be recorded by nearby seismometers.
Guan-Wei Lin +6 more
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