Displaying Items By Tag: Landslide Risk
News on landslide risk
NASA partners with Pacific Disaster Center on new landslide hazard assessment and warning system
- Oct, 26, 2023
- Landslides Slope Stability Analysis Slope Stability Risk & Reliability Data Management Other Geotechnical News On Projects / Industry News On Products & Services News On Software News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A collaboration between NASA and University of Hawaii’s Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) was recently made public on October 26, regarding NASA’s Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness mo...
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Greece’s Navagio Beach to remain closed for the summer due to landslide risk
- Mar, 08, 2023
- Landslides Risk & Reliability Erosion Slope Stability Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Greece
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
It was announced earlier this month that the popular Navagio Beach in Greece will remain closed this summer. Furthermore, Greece’s National Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (EPPO) c...
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Heavy rainfalls struck Japan: Massive evacuations and fear for landslides
- Aug, 28, 2019
- Landslides Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Japan
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
2 people were reported dead and 847,000 more were evacuated after heavy rainfalls triggered floods in Japan. The torrential rains struck southwestern Japan on August 28, 2019. Authorities issued a le...
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10,000 homes could be damaged by earthquake-induced landslides in Wellington, NZ
- Apr, 27, 2017
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Earthquake Reconnaissance Landslides
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Up to 10,000 houses of Wellington, New Zealand are threatened by damage due to landslides, if a big quake strikes the region, according to QuakeCoRE, New Zealand's centre for earthquake resilience....
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LiDAR technology: a new perspective in landslide risk evaluation
On the occasion of the Oso landslide, LiDAR technology comes forward, as an efficient means of revealing landslide risk. Signs of past landslides were obvious with bare eyes in the Snohomish Coun...
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