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Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Springer, 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 ...
Unsupervised classification for landslide detection from airborne laser scanning
(MDPI, 2019-05)
Landslides are natural disasters that cause extensive environmental, infrastructure and socioeconomic damage worldwide. Since they are difficult to identify, it is imperative to evaluate innovative approaches to detect ...
Assessment of landslides susceptibility in Serra do Mar by application of physiographic compartmentalizationAvaliação da suscetibilidade a escorregamento na Serra do Mar pela aplicação da compartimentação fisiográfica
(2019-01-01)
The study area is in Caraguatatuba and São Sebastião municipalities, in the north coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The area presents high potential for landslides occurrence because it is in the domain of Serra do ...
Distribution of landslides along the Andean active orogenic front (Argentinean Precordillera 31–33° S)
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
As one of the main environmental effects of earthquakes, the distribution of landslides could reflect regional neotectonic activity. To that end, we carried out an inventory of landslides along the Precordillera range ...
Rainfall thresholds estimation for shallow landslides in Peru from gridded daily data
(American Geophysical Union, 2022-07-20)
The objective of this work was to generate and evaluate regional rainfall thresholds obtained from a combination of high-resolution gridded precipitation data (PISCOpd_Op), developed by the National Service of Meteorology ...
Landslide monitoring in the Colca Valley, Peru, combined effect of precipitation and earthquake on the Maca landslide kinematic
(Sociedad Geológica del Perú - SGPPE, 2021-08)
The Maca landslide, located in the Colca Valley, in the Arequipa region is threatening the security of the village composed of around 800 inhabitants, the development of tourism in the Colca valley (160 000 tourists in ...
The September 19, 2017 Mw 7.1 Puebla-Mexico City Earthquake: Observed Rockfall and Landslide Activity
(2019)
This note documents key observations of slope instability and rockfall activity made by the UNAM-GEER reconnaissance team after the Mw 7.1 Puebla-Mexico City earthquake of September 19, 2017. The investigated sites were ...
Modelling the effect of forest cover on shallow landslides at the river basin scale
(2010)
The potential for reducing the occurrence of shallow landslides through targeted reforestation of critical
parts of a river basin is explored through mathematical modelling. Through the systematic investigation
of land ...