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An economic and geographic appraisal of a spatial natural hazard risk: a study of landslide mitigation rules An economic and geographic appraisal of a spatial natural hazard risk: a study of landslide mitigation rules

Efficient mitigation of natural hazards requires a spatial representation of the risk, based upon the geographic distribution of physical parameters and man-related development activities. Through such a representation, the spatial probability of landslides based upon physical science concepts is estimated for Cincinnati, Ohio. Mitigation programs designed to reduce loss from landslide...
Authors
R. L. Bernknopf, D.S. Brookshire, R. H. Campbell, C.D. Shapiro

The Manti, Utah, landslide The Manti, Utah, landslide

PART A: The Manti landslide is in Manti Canyon on the west side of the Wasatch Plateau in central Utah. In early June 1974, coincident with the melting of a snowpack, a rock slump/debris flow occurred on the south rim of Manti Canyon. Part of the slumped material mixed with meltwater and mobilized into a series of debris flows that traveled down the slope a distance of as much as 1.2 km...
Authors
R. W. Fleming, R. B. Johnson, R. L. Schuster, G. P. Williams

Landslides triggered by earthquakes in the central Mississippi Valley, Tennessee and Kentucky Landslides triggered by earthquakes in the central Mississippi Valley, Tennessee and Kentucky

We mapped 221 large (more than 200 ft across) landslides of three morphologically distinct types on the bluffs bordering the Mississippi alluvial plain in western Tennessee and Kentucky Old coherent slides (146 landslides, or 66 percent of the total) include translational block slides and single and multiple-block rotational slumps, all of which are covered by mature vegetation and have...
Authors
Randall W. Jibson, David K. Keefer

Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California

A catastrophic rainstorm in central California on January 3-5,1982, dropped as much as half the mean annual precipitation within a period of about 32 hours, triggering landslides and floods throughout 10 counties in the vicinity of the San Francisco Bay. More than 18,000 of the slides induced by the storm transformed into debris flows that swept down hillslopes or drainages with little...
Authors
Gerald F. Wieczorek
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