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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. International Consortium on Landslides - Wikipedia

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    It has various committees and programs, and was a co-founder of the "2006 Tokyo Action Plan", to carry out global cooperation on landslide monitoring and early warning; hazard mapping, vulnerability, and risk assessment; study of catastrophic landslides and landslides that threaten culturally important sites; and preparedness, mitigation, and ...

  4. Landslide - Wikipedia

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    A landslide in which the sliding surface is located within the soil mantle or weathered bedrock (typically to a depth from few decimeters to some meters) is called a shallow landslide. Debris slides and debris flows are usually shallow. Shallow landslides can often happen in areas that have slopes with high permeable soils on top of low ...

  5. Rancho Palos Verdes faces 'unprecedented new scenario' over ...

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    City officials last week voted to move ahead with a pilot plan to drill vertical wells into the deeper landslide, with the aim of pumping out groundwater — known to be the impetus for the land ...

  6. Category : Landslide analysis, prevention and mitigation

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    Pages in category "Landslide analysis, prevention and mitigation" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.

  7. 54 people are confirmed dead in a landslide that buried a ...

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    The landslide hit the mountain village of Masara in Davao de Oro province on Tuesday night after weeks of torrential rains. Davao de Oro’s provincial government said in a Facebook post that 54 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Condo residents file class action suit against sanitation ...

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    Residents are stuck without a safe place to live and they want those responsible for the landslide to take financial responsibility for the situation. Condo residents file class action suit ...