#landslide — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #landslide, aggregated by home.social.
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Japan warns of landslides as heavy rain lashes Yakushima Island
Japan’s weather agency on Saturday continued to urge people to exercise maximum caution over the risk of landslides…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #heavyrains #landslide #Nihon #weatherwarning #yakushimaisland
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Fatal Landslide Claims Life of 26-Year-Old in Labrador, Pangasinan
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Fatal Landslide Claims Life of 26-Year-Old in Labrador, Pangasinan
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Fatal Landslide Claims Life of 26-Year-Old in Labrador, Pangasinan
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Fatal Landslide Claims Life of 26-Year-Old in Labrador, Pangasinan
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/86594/ Nepal floods: Families gather at overwhelmed morgues in desperate search for loved ones #deaths #floods #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #glacier #kathmandu #Landslide #missing #morgues #Nepal #Tibet
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Spatiotemporal Distribution, Climatic Factors, And Seasonal Precipitation Patterns Characterizing 66 Years Of Widespread Shallow Landslide Events In Piedmont (Northwestern Italy)
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https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2026.1884300 <-- shared paper
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“Widespread shallow landslide events constitute one of the primary drivers of recurrent societal and economic losses in mountain regions. Although the influence of climate variability on landslide frequency and magnitude has been widely recognized, long-term, event-level analyses linking spatiotemporal landslide patterns to precipitation climatology at the regional scale remain scarce. This study presents a statistical analysis of 128 widespread shallow landslide events recorded in Piedmont, northwestern Italy, over the 66-year period 1960–2025, cross-referenced against the regional precipitation climatology. Events were characterized by season, primary physiographic unit, provincial coverage, and an ordinal magnitude index (scale 1–7) encoding combined spatial extent and estimated landslide count. Results indicate that no statistically significant monotonic trend in event frequency was detected over the study period (mean rate: 1.97 events yr⁻1); however, a moderate positive correlation was established between event magnitude and the number of provinces affected (R2 = 0.51, p < 0.00), validating the magnitude index as a proxy for spatial footprint. Mean event magnitude reached its highest value in the 2010s (3.71), while all five events of magnitude ≥ 6 occurred in autumn. The summer fraction of the catalogue increased markedly, from 6% in the 1960s to 31% in the 2000s and 25% in the 2020s, concurrent with stable or declining summer mean precipitation totals, consistent with Clausius–Clapeyron amplification of convective intensity under documented regional warming. Cross-analysis with regional records identifies three tiers of rainfall–landslide coupling: a stationary direct seasonal coupling; a non-stationary, strengthening intensity-mediated summer coupling; and a structural susceptibility-mediated spatial decoupling whereby the driest provinces generate the highest landslide occurrence frequencies due to the lower triggering thresholds characteristic of Tertiary Piedmont Basin sedimentary environments. A post-hoc assessment of the triggering thresholds used for regional shallow landslide early warning system demonstrates superior detection performance for high-magnitude autumn events (hit rate up to 89% for the 2000–2025 sub-period) and identifies sub-daily convective accumulation windows in summer as the primary domain requiring threshold recalibration…”
#massmovement #landslide #engineeringgeology #Italy #Piedmont #NorthernItaly #weather #rainfall #precipitation #climate #risk #hazard #corrleation #relationship #earlywarningsystems #damage #loss #community #infrastructure #mountain #spatiotemporal #mapping #spatialanalysis #statistics #geostatistics #climatology #regional #scale #weatherpatterns #physiography #geomorphology #water #hydrology #hydrogeomorphology #geology #soils -
Widespread Landslide Activity in an Extreme Wet Season and Implications for Regional Sediment Management, Eastern San Francisco Bay Area, California
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2026EA005227 <-- shared paper
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H/T @amy East, Ph.D., P.G. | Researcher integrating geoscience and climate-change preparedness
“[This paper (link above) is] a collaboration with [the H/T’s] colleagues from [the] USGS Landslide Hazards Program, who mapped over 8,900 landslides in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area during an extreme wet winter.
How much sediment does such an extreme winter produce, from landslides or in stream discharge? How does that compare with long-term sediment production and landscape denudation rates?
[They] f[o]nd that landslide sediment mobilization is comparable to long-term denudation rates, emphasizing the role of extreme events in long-term sediment production. However, one extreme wet year has a negligible effect toward counteracting ongoing problems of sediment deficit in San Francisco Bay: to keep pace with sea-level rise, extreme wet conditions would need to occur in 50 out of the next 75 years…”
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"PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: Watersheds will likely produce more sediment in a warmer future with more extreme rain, primarily through landslides in steep terrain. This study examines how an extremely wet season affected sediment production and transport in the eastern San Francisco Bay area, California. By mapping and measuring 8,928 landslides, [they] found that rare, extreme rain conditions are likely responsible for the vast majority of long-term hillslope erosion rates in this region. However, due to long residence times for sediment on hillslopes and in stream channels, a maximum of 1%–2% of that newly mobilized landslide material could have potentially contributed to sediment carried by streams into the Bay that year. Even extremely wet years cannot provide enough sediment for Bay wetlands and shorelines to keep pace with rising sea levels. To meet the demand for sediment in the Bay, such extreme rain and sediment production would need to occur in most years, which is not realistic. To restore wetlands and protect shorelines, managers likely will need to supplement the coastal system with repurposed dredged material…”
#massmovement #soil #water #hydrology #hydrography #geology #soils #geomorphometry #hydrogeomorphology #geomorphology #landslide #masswasting #climatechange #extremeweather #precipitation #rainfall #weather #climate #mapping #engineeringgeology #mapping #SanFrancisco #BayArea #USA #California #fedscience #fedservice #oublicgood #sediment #stream #discharge #extremewinter #sealevelrise #SLR #hillslope #erosion #sedimentation #tidal #wetlands #coast #coastline #shoreline #GIS #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #watershed
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Compound Hydrogeomorphic Cascades And Rapid Upstream To Downstream Hazard Coupling In The Eastern Himalaya
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-52915-8 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00943-z <-- shared paper
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H/T @Kuldeep Dutta | Geology-Earth Science
“… In hilly regions transitioning rapidly to low gradient alluvial plains, localized hydrometeorological triggers can instantly scale into devastating basin wide disasters. This study dissects the September 2020 cascading hazard in parts of the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam corridor to quantify the rapid coupling between upstream hillslopes and downstream floodplains.
Check out the [attached graphical abstract figure] for an integrated visual workflow of the entire disaster continuum from hillslope failure to floodplain transformation...”
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“Extreme precipitation in the Eastern Himalaya is increasingly associated with coupled hillslope-floodplain hazards. This study examines the 17th-18th September 2020 rainfall event in Arunachal Pradesh initiating landslides and its downstream impacts in Assam, India, using multi-sensor satellite data and long-term rainfall records. Sentinel-2 imagery was used to map landslides and debris flows, Sentinel-1 SAR data to delineate flood extent, and IMD gridded rainfall (1996–2020) to analyse rainfall spell characteristics. The event triggered widespread slope failures, localized landslide damming, and a subsequent breach, generating sediment-laden flows that inundated ~ 100 km² of the Dhemaji floodplain. A backscatter-derived Relative Flood Volume Index (RFVI) indicates spatial variability in inundation intensity, although it does not represent absolute flood volume. Rainfall analysis suggests that antecedent wetness from preceding spells preconditioned slopes, while peak daily rainfall (> 170 mm day−1) initiated landsliding. Power-law scaling shows negligible dependence of intensity on duration (R2 ≈ 0.0004), whereas cumulative rainfall exhibits a stronger relationship with duration (R2 ≈ 0.54). These results indicate distinct roles of rainfall intensity and accumulation in controlling landslide initiation and downstream flooding, respectively, highlighting the importance of compound rainfall forcing in rapid hydrogeomorphic cascades…”
#EarthScience #RemoteSensing #Himalayas #NaturalHazards #ClimateChange #ScientificReports #GeospatialAnalysis #DisasterMitigation #Landslide #trigger #Flooding #massmovement #extremeweather #engineeringgeology #floodplain #innundation #hillslope #fluvial #pluvial #alluvial #sediment #sedimentation #hydrometeorology #ArunachalPradesh #Assam #India #Brahmaputra #risk #hazard #geology #engineeringgeology #remotesensing #earthobservation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #disaster #hydrogeomorphology #workflow -
Compound Hydrogeomorphic Cascades And Rapid Upstream To Downstream Hazard Coupling In The Eastern Himalaya
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-52915-8 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-13-1281-2025 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-025-07766-3 <-- shared paper
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[I recognise that the photo is instead for the floods, etc in Lubra, Nepal - but felt it better showed the hydrogeomorphical setting (sic) for the 'casual' post viewer...]
H/T @Kuldeep Dutta
“In hilly regions transitioning rapidly to low gradient alluvial plains, localized hydrometeorological triggers can instantly scale into devastating basin wide disasters. This study dissects the September 2020 cascading hazard in parts of the Arunachal Pradesh-Assam corridor to quantify the rapid coupling between upstream hillslopes and downstream floodplains…”
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“Extreme precipitation in the Eastern Himalaya is increasingly associated with coupled hillslope-floodplain hazards. This study examines the 17th-18th September 2020 rainfall event in Arunachal Pradesh initiating landslides and its downstream impacts in Assam, India, using multi-sensor satellite data and long-term rainfall records. Sentinel-2 imagery was used to map landslides and debris flows, Sentinel-1 SAR data to delineate flood extent, and IMD gridded rainfall (1996–2020) to analyse rainfall spell characteristics. The event triggered widespread slope failures, localized landslide damming, and a subsequent breach, generating sediment-laden flows that inundated ~ 100 km2 of the Dhemaji floodplain. A backscatter-derived Relative Flood Volume Index (RFVI) indicates spatial variability in inundation intensity, although it does not represent absolute flood volume. Rainfall analysis suggests that antecedent wetness from preceding spells preconditioned slopes, while peak daily rainfall (> 170 mm/day/) initiated landsliding. Power-law scaling shows negligible dependence of intensity on duration (R² ≈ 0.0004), whereas cumulative rainfall exhibits a stronger relationship with duration (R² ≈ 0.54). These results indicate distinct roles of rainfall intensity and accumulation in controlling landslide initiation and downstream flooding, respectively, highlighting the importance of compound rainfall forcing in rapid hydrogeomorphic cascades...”
#EarthScience #RemoteSensing #Himalayas #NaturalHazards #ClimateChange #ScientificReports #GeospatialAnalysis #DisasterMitigation #Landslide #Flooding #alluvial #fluvial #water #hydrology #hydrography #flood #flooding #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #mountain #plain #hydrometeorological #hydrogeomorphology #ArunachalPradesh #Assam #India #hillslope #floodplain #rainfall #precipitation #extremeweather #engineeringgeology #massmovement #landslide #debrisflow #risk #hazard #monitoring #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #satellite #Sentinel #sedimentation #humanimpacts #infrastructure #damage #cost #economics #public #safety #model #modeling #downstream -
Hydroclimate Volatility On A Warming Earth
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00624-z <-- shared 2025 paper
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https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/floods-droughts-fires-hydroclimate-whiplash-speeding-up-globally <-- shared UCLA article, “Floods, Droughts, Then Fires: Hydroclimate Whiplash Is Speeding Up Globally “
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H/T @Daniel Swain
“Hydroclimate volatility refers to sudden, large and/or frequent transitions between very dry and very wet conditions. In this Review, we examine how hydroclimate volatility is anticipated to evolve with anthropogenic warming. Using a metric of ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ based on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, global-averaged subseasonal (3-month) and interannual (12-month) whiplash have increased by 31–66% and 8–31%, respectively, since the mid-twentieth century. Further increases are anticipated with ongoing warming, including subseasonal increases of 113% and interannual increases of 52% over land areas with 3 °C of warming; these changes are largest at high latitudes and from northern Africa eastward into South Asia. Extensive evidence links these increases primarily to thermodynamics, namely the rising water-vapour-holding capacity and potential evaporative demand of the atmosphere. Increases in hydroclimate volatility will amplify hazards associated with rapid swings between wet and dry states (including flash floods, wildfires, landslides and disease outbreaks), and could accelerate a water management shift towards co-management of drought and flood risks. A clearer understanding of plausible future trajectories of hydroclimate volatility requires expanded focus on the response of atmospheric circulation to regional and global forcings, as well as land–ocean–atmosphere feedbacks, using large ensemble climate model simulations, storm-resolving high-resolution models and emerging machine learning methods…
#water #hydrology #hydroclimate #whiplash #global #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #weatherwhiplash #ecogeomorphology #sustainability #ecology# ###
#water #hydrology #hydroclimate #volatility #dry #wet #drought #flood #flooding #wildfire #landslide #massmovement #whiplash #global #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #weatherwhiplash #ecogeomorphology #sustainability #ecology #hydrogeomorphology #climatechange #extremeweather #anthropogenicwarming #climate #weather #connection #StandardizedPrecipitationEvapotranspiration #precipitation #rainfall #research #evapotranspiration #risk #hazard #riskassessment #disease #pandemic #publichealth #publicsafety #waterquality #watersecurity #watermanagement #hydrography #atmospheric #regional #global #forcing #climatemodel #model #modeling #AI #machinelearning -
On The Use Of Rainfall Time Series For Regional Landslide Prediction By Means Of Functional Regression
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2026.108860 <-- shared paper
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#rainfallinduced #landslide #Functionalregression #Japan #Earlywarningsystem #Spacetimeprediction #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #massmovement #engineeringgeology #geomorphology #hydrogeomorphology #geomorphometry #remotesensing #geostatistics #model #modeling #mechanics #rainfall #threshold #precipitation #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #hazardassessment #terrain #landscape #landform #landuse #geology #soil #lithology #functionalGeneralizedAdditiveModel #FGAM #prediction #casestudy #AI #LLM -
The Road That Broke the Peninsula
I stumbled on an old map to Marineland from 1962, which showed Crenshaw Blvd as a route to the coast...through the Palos Verdes landslide zone. *Did* Crenshaw ever connect? If so, *how*? Did the landslide take it out, and if so when? I went digging for answers. -
A 481-Metre-High Landslide-Tsunami In A Cruise Ship–Frequented Alaska Fjord
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec3187 <-- shared paper
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/tsunami-landslide-alaska-climate-arctic.html <-- shared media article
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#naturalhazard #glacier #glacial #melting #risk #hazard #climatechance #extremeweather #tsunami #runup #riskassessment #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #cryosphere #disaster #publicsafety #damage #infrastructure #Alaska #fjord #landslide #massmovement #engineeringeology #geology #cruiseship #humanimpacts #water #hydrology #caseexample #monitoring #coast #coastal #marine #wave #microseismicity #remotesensing #earthobservation #tourism #averteddisaster #readiness #awareness #planning #safety #deglaciating -
Karst Flash Floods - An Example From The Dinaric Karst (Croatia)
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-6-195-2006 <-- shared (older) paper
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#flood #flooding #pluvial #fluvial #subsurface #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #disaster #flashflood #infrastructure #damage #building #destabilisation #foundations #karstburst #Marina #Dinaric #Croatia #extremeweather #climatechange #intense #prolonged #rainfall #precipitation #speed #fast #caves #conduits #fractures #aquifers #water #hydrology #groundwater #hydrogeology #waterpressure #sinkhole #subsidence #massmovement #landslide #monitoring #mapping #geology #engineeringgeology #hydroseismic #humanimpacts #lossoflife #death #karstterrain #springs #debris #sediment #cavities #riskassessment #Grazalema #Andalusia #Cadíz #Spain #StormLeonard #emergencymanagement #planning -
Fatal Debris Avalanche On An Anthropogenically Disturbed, Earthquake-Perturbed Slope During Antecedent Rainfall [Turkey]
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-026-02713-0 <-- shared paper
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https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/gungoren-hillslope-1 <-- shared technical article
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https://geohazard.itu.edu.tr/en/news-detail/2025/01/23/could-the-g%C3%BCng%C3%B6ren-arhavi-%28artvin%29-landslide-be-predicted <-- shared technical article
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https://zenodo.org/records/14625940 <-- shared technical article/paper
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#rainfall #precipitation #pluvial #massmovement #monitoring #Turkey #Türkiye #Güngören #Artvin #remotesensing #earthobservation #GIS #spatial #mapping #LiDAR #UAV #InSAR #radar #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #massmovement #risk #hazard #geology #landslide #engineeringgeology #anthropogenic #humnacimpacts #manmade #quarry #highway #stability #earthquake #trigger #slopestability #naturalhazard #disaster #debrisflow #fatal #lossoflife #publicsafety #fieldwork #model #failure #geomorphology #kinematic #geomorphometry #creeping #extremeweather #multiple #recurrence #progressive #groundmotion #susceptibility -
How to spot a landslide before it happens - disaster expert
KEY POINTS:
Landslides can occur on most NZ slopes.
Be alert to:
- falling rocks
- small slips as they may precede a bigger slip
- any cracks or bulges in the ground
- doors/windows suddenly being harder to use because their frames have shifted."It's better to be safe than sorry," the expert said. If danger is sensed it is best to listen to that instinct.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/584744/how-to-spot-a-landslide-before-it-happens-disaster-expert
#nz #safety #disasterprevention #landslide #rocks #doors #windows #homesafety
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Multi-Disciplinary Reconstruction Of Debris Flow Events And Dynamics In The Northern Apennines, Italy - A Multiscale Approach Linking Ground Evidence With Climatic Triggers
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.109708 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #engineeringgeology #massmovement #geology #landslide #debrisflow #multidisciplinary #geomorphology #pluvial #precipitation #dendrogeomorphological #treerings #dendrochronology #dating #chronology #reconstruction #geomorphmetry #processmodel #flowchart #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #mountains #orthophotos #historicphotos #geopedology #soil #hydraulic #alpedisucciso #trees #vegatation #downslope #risk #hazard #assessment #remotesensing #water #hydrology #rainfall #records #NorthernApennines #susceptibility #Italy -
Rapid Mass Movements Triggered By An Atmospheric River In Disko Island, West Greenland
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https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70201 <-- shared paper, 2023 event(s)
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01922-7 <-- shared paper, 2021 event(s)
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https://www.polarresearch.at/the-great-landslide-of-assapaat/ <-- shared technical article
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#landslide #massmovement #thawing #permafrost #extremewweather #cryosphere #Qeqertarsuaq #ArcticDEM #DiskoIsland #Greenland #ERA5 #CARRA #fluvial #pluvial #precipitation #rainfall #snow #ice #glacier #glacial #temperature #slushflow #GIS #spatial #mapping #geomorphology #elevation #slope #atmosphericriver #climate #weather #snowmelt #island #coast #coastal #damage #humanimpacts #infrastructure #arctic #monitoring #geohazard #risk #hazard #engineeringgeology #polar #change #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #earthobservation #debrisflow #remoteareas
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When Heavy Rain Meets #Glacial Landscapes – Record-Breaking #Flooding in #WashingtonState [USA]…
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/geological-society-of-america_geohazards-flooding-landslides-ugcPost-7405031818007187457-wuwy <-- shared GSA LinkedIn post
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https://doi.org/10.1130/G39691.1 <-- shared paper
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https://komonews.com/news/local/landslide-risk-western-washington-severe-flooding-heavy-rain-continues-for-dirt-soil-sediment-weather-forecast-winter-storm-pacific-northwest <-- shared media article
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https://youtu.be/1yB34LibGo8?si=Z_Ug5gd3xLhvZGym <-- shared media video
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#geohazards #Landslides #Geology #landslide #severeweather #landslides #landsliderisk #weather #westernwashington #washingtonflooding #flooding #winterconditions #storm #pnw #meteorology #science #massmovement #flood #extremeweather #fluvial #pluvial #rainfall #atmosphericriver #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #mitigation #forecasting #riskmanagement #damage #infrastructure #cost #economics #publicsafety #PNW #PacificNorthwest #water #hydrology #glacial #sediment #sedimentology #stratigraphy #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #elevation #slopestability #froundwater #hydrology #model #flow #modeling #outwash #till #clay #watertable #lithology #landscape #geomorphology #geometry #USA -
The Rise Of Community-Led Landslide Monitoring
Could an innovative natural-disaster monitoring system in Alaska be a model for the rest of the country?
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https://seaklandslideworkinggroup.substack.com/p/article-in-sierra-about-southeast <-- shared technical #Substack
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#communitybased #landslidemonitoring #NationalLandslidePreparednessAct #massmovement #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #landslide #publicsafety #monitoring #Sitka #Alaska #debrisflow #risk #hazard #water #hydrology #pluvial #fluvial #rainfall #precipitation #AK #extremeweather #climatechange #atmosphericriver #coast #coastal #slope #steepness #Haines #Ketchikan #Wrangell #Juneau #propertydamage #cost #economics #soilmositure #sensors #raingauge #Skagway #emergencymanagement #forecasting #tool #online #dashboard #situationalawareness #NSF #grant #infrastructure #threshold #historic #analysis #geomorphology #geomorphometry #communication #buddysystem #risktolerance #SitkaTribeofAlaska
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Geologically-Driven Migration of Landmines and Explosive Remnants of War - A Feature Focusing on the Western Balkans
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https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13060178 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/05/20/balkan-floods-expose-deadly-mines-from-1990s <-- shared 2014 media example
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[mechanics/process I know I (fortunately) don’t consider - but fascinating!]
#landmine #unexplodedordnance #explosiveordnance #abandonedexplosiveordnance #IED #improvisedexplosivedevice #military #minefield #war #publicsafety #flood #flooding #landslide #WesternBalkans #balkans #Bosnia #Herzegovina #Serbia #Croatia #stochastic #deterministic #model #modeling #war #battlefield #ordanance #injury #fatality #massmovement #landsurface #processes #engineeringgeology #geology #geology #soil #debrisflow #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #hydromorphology #morphology #geomorphometry #spatialanalysis #GIS #spatial #mapping #riskmapping #fieldsurvey #spatiotemporal #research #hazardmap #planning #polict #landuse #emergency #publichealth #riskmanagement -
Assessment Of Western Oregon Debris-Flow Hazards In Burned And Unburned Environments
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https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70045 <-- shared paper
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[with more and more catastrophic wildfires, the engineering geology awareness and possible mapping of post-fire debris flow risk is important]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #wildfire #fire #oregon #risk #hazard #geology #geomorphology #risk #hazard #landslide #massmovement #landslide #postfire #soil #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #engineeringgeology #extremeweather #naturaldisaster #debrisflow #mechasisms #property #infrastrure #publicsafety #lossoflife #model #modeling #calibration #water #hydrology #inventory #hazardassessment #geomorphometry -
Kinematic Evolution Of A Large Paraglacial Landslide In The Barry Arm Fjord Of Alaska
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007119 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.5066/P9EUCGJQ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalogMaps/mapping/ows/5fff561ed34e592d8671ee85?service=wms&request=getcapabilities&version=1.3.0 <-- shared web mapping service
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #massmovement #landslide #engineeringgeology #remotesensing #sitespecific #LiDAR #iFSAR #paraglacial #kinematics #mapping #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #risk #hazard #glacier #retreat #climatechange #Alaska #BarryArm #fjord #hazardassessment #tsunami #wave #BarryGlacier #change #sensors #fieldwork #surveillance #melting #permafrost #Whittier #geophysics #geology #Alaska #geomorphometry #deglaciating
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Identification Of Geothermal Anomalies From Landsat Derived Land Surface Temperature, Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, British Columbia, Canada
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114649 <-- shared paper
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“Highlights:
• A novel method for detecting geothermal components from solar energy dominated LST.
• Using LST time series to eliminate temporal variant solar energy input.
• Uncertainty in anomaly identification quantified by probability measure.
• Capable of revealing LST anomalies caused by geothermal, anthropogenic and surface processes..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #britishcolumbia #BC #solar #geothermal #remotesensing #earthobservation #LST #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #naturalresources #volcanic #geology #geostatistics #landsurfacetemperature #satellite #geothermalheatflux #GHF #energybalance #calculation #model #MountMeager #Landsat #landsat8 #hotspring #landslide #massmovement #engineeringgeology #spring #seep #anthropogenic #HEP #hydropower #monitoring #risk #hazard -
(Radiometric-Derived) Sediment Susceptibility For The Te Hoiere Pelorus Catchment [New Zealand]
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http://alturl.com/hxbvg <-- shared technical report
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http://alturl.com/xkgsv <-- shared related technical article
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[reminded so much of the engineering geology work I did in my thesis in New Zealand]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #AGRS #gammaray #spectroscopy #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #massmovement #landslide #rainfall #precipitation #watershed #TeHoiere #Pelorus #Catchment #NewZealand #waterquality #waterresources #water #hydrology #geology #soil #regolith #topography #slope #aspect #spatialanalysis #landuse #humanimpacts #masswasting #erosion #sediment #sedimentation #radiometrics #LiDAR #spatialtools
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A Rockslide-Generated Tsunami In A Greenland Fjord Rang Earth For 9 Days
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adm9247 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #seiche #tsunami #model #modeling #observation #massmovement #engineeringgeology #debrisflow #landslide #massmovement #risk #hazard #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #Greenland #seismic #seismology #DicksonFjord #fjord #rockslide #climatechange #standingwaves #cryosphere #hydrosphere #masswasting #geomorphology #geomorphometry #tsunamigenic #glacier #glacial #melting #amplitude #lithosphere #naturalhazard -
Emergency shuttle service around a landslide between Santa Paula and Ojai. #SantaPaula #Ojai #VenturaCounty #landslide #CAwx https://www.goventura.org/emergency-shuttle-service-to-operate-between-santa-paula-and-ojai-during-state-route-150-closure/
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"An unknown driver in Tillamook County drove past safety barricades during the early morning hours of Jan. 21 before plunging into a hole left by a 200-foot landslide, which shut down Sandlake Road on Dec. 6.
Tillamook County Sheriff’s Deputy Ben Berger said that someone is suspected to have intentionally removed the barrier before the car drove into the hole.... No driver or passengers were found at the scene of the crash" #landslide #crash #crime #Oregon #Tillamook https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/photos-driver-ignores-tillamook-county-road-closure-plunges-into-hole-left-by-200-foot-landslide/
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Global News BC: Highway 97 near Summerland to partially reopen Monday evening https://globalnews.ca/news/9953963/highway-97-summerland-to-partially-reopen-monday/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #MinistryofTransportation #highwayreopening #highwayclosure #southokanagan #summerland #Highway97 #landslide #Rockslide #Traffic #MOTI
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Via the AGU's Landslide blog, the Brienz, Switzerland landslide "is part of a much larger area of deep-seated gravitational slope deformation" and could soon slide into the town of 130 residents, which has been evacuated:
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2023/05/10/brienz-rockslide-1/GeologyHub has a good explainer video on the situation in Graubünden canton in eastern Switzerland:
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New piece by @carrietait about the #landslide on #SnowpatchSpire in the #Bugaboos with comments from @[email protected] @[email protected] and myself https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/canada/british-columbia/article-landslide-reshapes-popular-climbing-spire-in-bc/ #climbing #mountaineering #geohazards #glacier
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Hello Mastodon, or is it Tootland? I'm so confused...I will just blunder on, confused as usual!
I'm Heidi Stenner, a #hazards geologist and Project Manager with #GeoHazards International (#GHI) a non-profit focused on working with lower-resourced global communities who are at high risk of natural hazards and climate change impacts.
I have been an #earthquake #geologist and #paleoseismologist with USGS. Migrated into #scicomm #disasterprep. I'm most interested in #EQ #landslide #volcano #compound #concurrent #cascading #disasters and how to #mitigate #adapt #plan to reduce their impacts.