By S.G. EVANS, G. SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA, A.L. STROM, R.L. HERMANNS, A. ISCHUK, S. VINNICHENKO (auth.), Stephen G. Evans, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza, Alexander Strom, Reginald L. Hermanns (eds.)
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Amongst the thematic themes mentioned are worldwide frequency, affects on society, research of preliminary rock slope failure, tracking of rock slope circulation, research and modeling of post-failure behaviour, volcanic landslides, and impacts of big rock slope failure at the geomorphological evolution of mountain areas. local contributions contain studies on rockslides and rock avalanches in Norway, western Canada, the Andes of Argentina, the Karakoram Himalaya, the eu Alps, the Appennines, and the mountains of crucial Asia.
Rockslides and rock avalanches within the relevant Asian republics of the previous Soviet Union are mentioned intimately for the 1st time in an English-language publication. those landslides contain the 1911 Usoi rockslide, that dammed seventy five km-long Lake Sarez, and the 1949 Khait rock avalanche which could have killed as much as 28,000 humans. either landslides have been earthquake-triggered and either can be found in Tajikistan. an extra spotlight is an in depth description and research of large-scale man made rock avalanches brought on via underground nuclear explosions in the course of the checking out programme of the previous Soviet Union.
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5. , 34, 108, 109, 110, 151, Hovius and Stark, this volume]. Keefer [182], showed that erosion rates from earthquake-induced landslides vary significantly from region to region and that in some seismically active mountains such as western New Guinea, seismically-triggered landslides are the predominant agent of slope erosion. Hovius et al. [151] quantified denudation rates related to landsliding on the western slopes of the Southern Alps of New Zealand by analyzing aerial photographs spanning 60 years.
3. ASSUMPTIONS AND LIMITATIONS IN THE MAGNITUDE/FREQUENCY APPROACH TO LANDSLIDE HAZARD ASSESSMENT Despite the accumulating evidence of a characteristic, possibly universal landslide m/f signature there are some assumptions and limitations that should be kept in mind in the application of the methodology to landslide hazard assessment. , that the rate of occurrence implicit in the temporal records will persist at the same rates into the future, at least in terms of engineering time scales. , rainstorms and earthquakes).
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Landslides from Massive Rock Slope Failure by S.G. EVANS, G. SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA, A.L. STROM, R.L. HERMANNS, A. ISCHUK, S. VINNICHENKO (auth.), Stephen G. Evans, Gabriele Scarascia Mugnozza, Alexander Strom, Reginald L. Hermanns (eds.)
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