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Haywood County plans for emergency landslide response, mapping to help
Mountain Xpresss   08 August 2016   Haywood County   USA  
General areas where landslides were reported in the July 15-16, 1916
<p>Haywood County Local Emergency Planning Committee hosted a Landslide Emergency Response Meeting at the Jonathan Creek Fire Department on August 4th. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together first responders, subjects matter experts, and emergency ...
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Bringing the landslide laboratory to remote regions
Science Daily   12 April 2016   China   Loess Plateau  
This is a movable lab for field study of gravity erosion on the Loess Plateau of China. Credit: X.-Z. Xu/DLUT
<p>Thanks to millions of years' accumulation of the wind-deposited, highly-porous sediment from which China's Loess plateau takes its name, the region has been called the most erosion-prone on Earth. However, despite the prominent geomorphic role gravity erosion ...
A Landslide Disaster Risk Management Mission to the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan
The Geological Society   29 February 2016   UK   Burlington House  
<p>In late July 2015, accelerated snow and glacier melting, caused by unusually high temperatures, triggered severe mudflows and flooding in Pamir Mountains in the central Tajikistan. As a result of the mudflows, a large debris fan was deposited and extended ...
Colorado geologists: Landslide danger still present on Grand Mesa
The Denver Post   01 October 2015   USA   Colorado  
An Aerial view of the Mesa County Mudslide (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
<p>A new report on last year's massive landslide near the western Colorado town of Collbran says conditions remain that could prompt another disaster of comparable magnitude.<br>The 55-page Colorado Geological Survey study says risks remain specifically because ...
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Overseas geological experts will find solution for landslide incidents on Mumbai-Pune Expressway
DNA INDIA   03 August 2015   India   Mumbai  
Expressway landslide
<p>To avert frequent incidents of landslides on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, the Maharashtra government has decided to take the help of geological experts from Australia and Switzerland. Public Works Department (PWD) minister Eknath Shinde said that the Australian ...
Fund technology to prevent another Oso landslide
The Seattle Times   15 April 2015   USA   Seattle  
Oso landslide
<p>IN the aftermath of last year&rsquo;s lethal Oso landslide, the state Legislature has unanimously authorized an expanded state program to map slide-prone slopes and other geologic hazards. Equally important, the state would make that information more accessible ...