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Urban areas at greater risk for landslides due to the effects of precipitation

A new study indicates that urbanized areas are more prone to landslides caused by precipitation than rural areas. Annually, landslides are one of the most severe natural disasters that causes numero...

The effect of rock shape on rockfall risk assessment

A new study from ETH Zurich university and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF sheds light on the impact of rock shape on rockfall risk assessment. Evaluating the stability of rock...

Risk assessment on natural disasters in densely populated Himalayan regions

A new study focuses on the multi-hazard susceptibility of a densely populated region in the Himalayas. Until recently, most of the studies are focusing on the individual effect of a natural disaster ...

Dynamic response of wind turbines under combined wind-earthquake loading

A new study investigates the combined effect of wind and earthquake forces to assess the dynamic behavior of wind turbines. The demand for renewable energy is nowadays at its peak. Wind power is a gr...

Solving Grand Canyon's puzzling geological history

A new study comes to shed light on a long-lasting mystery about the geology of the Grand Canyon. This involves a time gap in the canyon's rock formations that stretches for more than a billion years....

Understanding the nature of friction on earthquake faults by studying a volcanic eruption

A new study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), focuses on a volcanic flank collapse to understand how frictional resis...

More than 50% of U.S. infrastructure threatened by natural hazards

According to a new study from the University of Colorado, Boulder, about 57% of infrastructure established in the United States is threatened by natural hazards. Despite significant advances in infra...

First scientific findings on Myanmar's mine landslide disaster in 2020

For the first time after more than a year from the deadly jade mine landslide that occurred in Myanmar, scientists reveal data from a systematic investigation of the incident suggesting that poor pla...

The impact of coastal flooding on traffic resilience: The case of San Francisco Bay Area

A new study suggests that coastal flooding and seawater level rise severely impact the traffic network and safety in San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Seal level rise in California will potentially become...

An active fault zone poses a threat for infrastructure in Salt Lake City, Utah

According to a new study, a complex fault system beneath Salt Lake City can pose a severe threat to infrastructure if it is activated during an earthquake. Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah with...

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