Mass Movements
Integrated database for rapid mass movements in Norway
... slope mass movements in- clude all kinds of short term relocation of geological ma- terial, snow or ...slope mass movements ranging from single rocks hitting roads and houses to large snow ...
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Meandering of Tributaries of the Tigris River Due to Mass Movements within Iraq
... as mass movements and alluvial fan's ...to mass movements is dealt with in this ...large mass movement phenomena were ...to mass movement phenomena; others are caused by alluvial ...
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Modelling rapid mass movements using the shallow water equations in Cartesian coordinates
... rapid mass movements such as debris flows. Debris flows are characterized by lower flow velocities and lower flow path gradients compared to snow avalanches, so that effects of our approximations become ...
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Monitoring and prediction in early warning systems for rapid mass movements
... Accurate and timely knowledge of precipitation is a key for warning about impending RMM. The inherent problem with measuring and predicting precipitation is its large variability over a wide range of spatial and temporal ...
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Correlation between Rainfall and Mass Movements in North Coast Region of Sao Paulo State, Brazil for 2014 2018
... the mass movements are one of the natural phenomena that cause the most financial impact and deaths in the ...The mass movements assume catastrophic proportions in urban areas causing ...
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Rainfall intensity–duration conditions for mass movements in Taiwan
... on mass movements in Japan also found that hillslopes in regions with high cumulative precipitation displayed greater resistance to rainfall than hillslopes in regions with low cumulative precipitation ...
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Mapping of mass movements hazard in the N'fis watershed, High Atlas, Morocco
... A BSTRACT : This work provides the map of mass movements hazard, which presents the most common phenomena in the N’fis watershed. The study is part of the contribution to the watershed management, which is ...
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Numerical analysis of deep-seated mass movements in the Magura Nappe; Flysch Belt of the Western Carpathians (Czech Republic)
... Abstract. Deep-seated slope failures are common features in the mountains of the Raca Unit, Magura Nappe of the Flysch Belt of Western Carpathians. Since they represent very complicated system, understanding of their ...
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Seismic detection and characterization of landslides and other mass movements
... In addition to the most common application of seismol- ogy to the discrimination and analysis of assumed station- ary, point-source phenomena such as explosions and earth- quakes, these methods have also been applied to ...
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The leader as catalyst : on mass movements and the mechanics of institutional change
... populace to participate in the revolution — be it members of the Awami League in Bangladesh, the Viet Minh in Vietnam or the Convention People’s Party in Ghana. We now illustrate how our framework (with small ...
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LiDAR for monitoring mass movements in permafrost environments at the cirque Hinteres Langtal, Austria, between 2000 and 2008
... The assumed disintegration of parts of the rockglacier front and frequent shifting of material is expressed by surface el- evation changes with apparent surface subsidence and ad- jacent surface lifting (Fig. 2, e.g. ...
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Landslide tsunami hazard in the Indonesian Sunda Arc
... A compilation of bathymetric images is shown in Fig. 3. The landslides 1, 2, and 3 at the trench off Northern Suma- tra can be described as blocky debris avalanches. The mass movements started at the ...
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Failure processes in submarine landslides: a geomorphological approach
... Submarine mass movements, however, are still generally studied as isolated slope failure events using an engineering approach ...of mass movement ...of mass movements and their scaling ...
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Age distribution of fossil landslides in the Tyrol (Austria) and its surrounding areas
... largest mass movements in the Alps cluster spatially in the Tyrol ...dated mass movements in the Eastern Alps has been ...Holocene mass movements were not directly triggered by ...
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The influence of groundwater conditions on streambank stability in the Wet Tropics
... Streambank mass movements can occur in healthy streams as part of the natural processes, but occur more often and with greater impact when natural processes are accelerated through human overuse ...
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Avalanche situation in Turkey and back calculation of selected events
... (rapid mass movements sim- ulation) combined with a (digital elevation model) DEM- based potential release zone identification algorithm to an- alyze the catastrophic avalanche events in the villages of ...
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COMMUNAL POLITICS IN THE IMPERIAL CAPITAL OF DELHI (1922-1927)
... these mass movements fostered communal harmony among the Hindus and the Muslims, which was considered to be one of the major characteristics of Indian politics during the period ...
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Seismic detection of rockslides at regional scale: examples from the Eastern Alps and feasibility of kurtosis-based event location
... works. Here we show that this concept could also be applied to the rather emergent signals induced by gravitational mass movements at regional distances. Eight of 14 locatable events in this study could be ...
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On the origin of the tensile strength of insect swarms
... 160 Here it was shown that the tensile strength of swarms can (somewhat counter-intuitively) to be attributed to centre-of-mass movements, as documented by Reynolds and Ouellette [2016] (Figs. 1 and 2). ...
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Tao Xingzhi’s Non-Communist Mass Education Movements in 1930s China
... anti-imperialist mass movements flared up in the coastal ...and movements, the revival of communism and the establishment of the Red Army were considered as an imminent threat to the Nationalist ...
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