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2. Landslide mitigation - Wikipedia

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   This type of measure is used in cases of smaller landslides. The effectiveness of micropiles is linked to the insertion of micropiles over the entire landslide area. In the case of rotational landslides in soft clay, the piles contribute to increasing the resisting moment by friction on the upper part of the pile shaft found in the landslide.

3. How to prepare your home for a potential landslide - AOL

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4. A landslide destroyed my North Carolina home during Hurricane ...

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   However, landslides aren’t covered by standard homeowners insurance or even flood insurance. And that can leave a lot of people in a terrible spot. Homeowners insurance won't cut it

5. Landslide classification - Wikipedia

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   The difference between these two concepts is subtle but important. The landslide causes are the reasons that a landslide occurred in that location and at that time and may be considered to be factors that made the slope vulnerable to failure, that predispose the slope to becoming unstable. The trigger is the single event that finally initiated ...

6. Jamb - Wikipedia

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   The jambs of a window outside the frame are called reveals. Small shafts to doors and windows with caps and bases are called jamb-shafts; when in the inside arris of the jamb of a window, they are sometimes called scoinsons. [2] A doorjamb, door jamb, or sometimes doorpost is the vertical portion of the door frame onto which a door is secured. [3]

7. How an Alaska couple managed to escape a deadly landslide ...

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   A landslide in southern Alaska on Sunday left one person dead and several others injured, and some residents have been ordered to evacuate as officials warn another slide could strike nearby.

8. Rockslide - Wikipedia

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   A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through compacted rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks. Note that a rockslide is similar to an avalanche because they are both slides of debris that can bury a piece of land.

9. Door frame - Wikipedia

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   One elaborate kind of door surround is the Gibbs surround, which is a type of banded "rusticated" architectural frame surrounding a door, window or niche in the tradition of classical architecture. The term surround may be used to refer to just an ornamental border which encircles the sides and top of a door frame, [ 1 ] or it may refer to the ...