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The landslides have increased concerns that underground water flowing down the mountain could contaminate local water sources and give rise to contagious diseases.
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.
The landslide was so sudden that the family members died where they sat; they had been watching an ice hockey game on television. [11] The slide took out a portion of rural road which took a year to reinstate. [12] On 2 February 2015, a landslide collapsed a pillar on the Skjeggestad Bridge in South-East Norway.
GeoHazards International (GHI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to ending preventable death and suffering caused by natural disasters in the world's most vulnerable communities. Founded in 1991, GHI is the first non-profit, nongovernmental organization dedicated to mitigating earthquake, tsunami, and landslide risks in the world ...
Cincinnati will get just over $10 million to address damage from landslides. The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the city a $10.1 million grant from infrastructure programs, according to ...
The major highway near Grand Teton National Park that was closed after a “catastrophic” collapse Saturday could partially reopen in a matter of weeks, according to the Wyoming Department of ...
The International Consortium on Landslides is a non-governmental organization created in 2002 to promote landslide research, education, and risk evaluation and reduction. It is located in Kyoto, Japan. The organization has consultative status with UNESCO. [1] [2] The ICL's journal is Landslides. It holds regular symposiums, including the World ...
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.