In response to mudslides that have killed at least 20 people in Southern California, a geologist calls for more resources to study and map landslide hazards so residents can understand the risks.
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The ocean floor off Australia’s east coast bears the scars of numerous subsea landslides, which have potentially triggered tsunamis over the past several millennia.
Mass graves are being dug for hundreds of those killed in a nation once more gripped by grief.
The threat of any tsunami following an earthquake can take time to assess, so it’s important people who live in risk zones are ready for any event.
Landslide researchers continue to learn more about how and where these events occur. It’s trickier to figure out how to minimize potential damage to human communities from future landslides.
Landslides happen everywhere and in different geological locations. This can be because of flooding, which allows sodden soil to move, or rockfalls and slower, continuous movements of land due to gravity…
Landslides don’t attract the same media attention as more familiar geological hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes. And yet they can be just as disastrous and, in fact, 2014 has been a particularly…
Scientists have discovered the elixir to the world’s most renown mountains’ exceedingly long health: landslides and erosion…
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Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor in Coastal and Marine Science, University of Newcastle
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