Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found to display a finite time singularity of the velocity v. Here we provide a physical basis for this phenomenological law based on a slider block model using a state- and velocity-dependent ...

We analyse the volume distribution of natural rock falls on different geological settings, i.e. calcareous cliffs in the French Alps, Grenoble area and granite Yosemite cliffs, California sierra and differnt volume range i.e. regional and word wide catalogs. ...

We study the rock fall volume distribution for three rock fall inventories and we fit the observed data by a power-law distribution, which has recently been proposed to describe landslide and rock fall volume distributions, and is also observed for many other ...