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PERSPECTIVE ON LANDSLIDE DAMS.
The most common types of mass movements that form landslide dams are rock and soil slumps and slides; mud, debris, and earth flows: and rock and debris avalanches. The most common initiation mechanisms for dam-forming landslides are excessive rainfall and snow melt, and earthquakes. Most landslide dams are remarkable short-lived. In a sample of 63 documented cases, 22 percent of the landslide dams
Authors
Robert L. Schuster, John E. Costa
Economic Losses and Fatalities Due to Landslides
Annual losses in the United States, Japan, Italy, and India have been estimated at 1 billion or more each. During the period 1971-74, nearly 600 people per year were killed by landslides worldwide; about 90 percent of these deaths occurred in the Circum-Pacific region. From 1967-82, 150 people per year died in Japan as a result of slope failures. In the United States, the number of landslide-relat
Authors
Robert L. Schuster, Robert W. Fleming
Some Techniques for Reducing Landslide Hazards
Many techniques are available for reducing landslide hazards; 27 are described in this paper. Prerequisites for the successful use of these techniques are hazard information understandable to nongeologists and adequate communication of this information to those who will, or are required to, use it. It is concluded that certain factors needed to ensure the lasting effectiveness of these techniques
Authors
William J. Kockelman
LANDSLIDE DAMMED LAKES AT MOUNT ST. HELENS, WASHINGTON.
The collapse of the north face of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, and the debris avalanche that resulted blocked outflow from Spirit Lake and Coldwater and South Fork Castle Creeks. Spirit Lake began to increase in size and lakes began to form in the canyons of Coldwater and South Fork Castle Creeks. Coldwater and Castle Lakes would have overtopped their respective blockages in late 1981 or earl
Authors
William Meyer, Martha A. Sabol, Robert Schuster
Seismically induced landslides: current research by the US Geological Survey.
We have produced a regional seismic slope-stability map and a probabilistic prediction of landslide distribution from a postulated earthquake. For liquefaction-induced landslides, in situ measurements of seismically induced pore-water pressures have been used to establish an elastic model of pore pressure generation. -from Authors
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E. L. Harp, R. C. Wilson, D. K. Keefer, G. F. Wieczorek
A model for the plastic flow of landslides
To further the understanding of the mechanics of landslide flow, we present a model that predicts many of the observed attributes of landslides. The model is based on an integration of the hyperbolic differential equations for stress and velocity fields in a two-dimensional, inclined, semi-infinite half-space of Coulomb plastic material under elevated pore pressure and gravity.
Our landslide m
Authors
William Z. Savage, William K. Smith
Evaluation of landslide hazards resulting from the 5-8 October 1985, storm in Puerto Rico
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Authors
R. W. Jibson
Landslides in Alaska; a bibliography of the literature describing landslides and other forms of slope instability
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J. P. Galloway
Potential geologic hazards near the Thistle Landslide, Utah County, Utah
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I. J. Witkind
Map showing the status of landslide inventory and susceptibility mapping in California
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Authors
Fred Taylor, E. E. Brabb