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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 ...
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A large landslide entered Sullorsuaq Strait, generating a megatsunami which struck Alluttoq Island, where it had a run-up height of 45 to 70 metres (148 to 230 ft). [15] ~2800 BCE Zion Canyon, Utah, US: 0.286 km 3: Landslide created the currently level floor of Zion Canyon inside Zion National Park. [21] ~1920 BCE Jishi Gorge, Qinghai Province ...
Landslides occur around the world and have helped shape the Earth as we know it. The landslide that destroyed a rural neighborhood and claimed 43 lives in Oso, northeast of Seattle, 10 years ago ...
The knowledge of the landslide frequency is a fundamental element for any kind of probabilistic evaluation. Furthermore, the evaluation of the age of the landslide permits to correlate the trigger to specific conditions, as earthquakes or periods of intense rains. It is possible that phenomena could be occurred in past geological times, under ...
Seismic microzonation is defined as the process of subdividing a potential seismic or earthquake prone area into zones with respect to some geological and geophysical characteristics of the sites such as ground shaking, liquefaction susceptibility, landslide and rock fall hazard, earthquake-related flooding, so that seismic hazards at different locations within the area can correctly be ...
Animation of a landslide in San Mateo County, California Landslips Noire River (Rivière Noire), Saint-Alban landslide 1894, Quebec, Canada [1] [2] Landslides , also known as landslips , or rockslides , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls , mudflows , shallow ...
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development".