Results from frequency-ratio analyses of soil classification and land use related to landslide locations in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria

To better understand factors potentially contributing to the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides in Puerto Rico, we evaluated the locations of landslides there following Hurricane Maria (Hughes et al., 2019) and potential contributing factors. This data release provides results of evaluations of landslide locations compared to soil classification and land cover, which involved frequency-ratio analyses (for example, Lee and Pradhan, 2006; Lee et al., 2007; He and Beighley, 2008; Lepore et al., 2012; Chalkias et al., 2014). Soil classification data were obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (2018) and land cover data were obtained from the Puerto Rico Gap Analysis Program (Gould et al., 2008). The data presented herewith were produced during a study described in Hughes and Schulz (2020).

Three files are included with this data release. Data files soil_classification_results.csv and land_cover_results.csv provide results of the analyses of landslide locations compared to soil classification and land cover, respectively. A read-me file (readme.txt) provides the information contained in this summary and additional description of data available from the data files.