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Landslide damage along Araniko highway and Pasang Lhamu highway and regional assessment of landslide hazard related to the Gorkha, Nepal earthquake of 25 April 2015

The Gorkha, Nepal Mw 7.8 earthquake of 25 April 2015 triggered a large number of coseismic landslides in a broad area. Two highways, Araniko Highway and Pasang Lhamu Highway, that connect Tibet of China and Ne...

Authors: Chong Xu, Yingying Tian, Bengang Zhou, Hongliu Ran and Gaohu Lyu

Structural damage to houses and buildings induced by liquefaction in the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, Japan

In April 2016, Kumamoto City, Japan, and its surroundings were hit by a sequence of strong and devastating earthquakes including two significant events, one on April 14^th, 2016, at 21:26 JST (Mw6.2) and the other...

Authors: Hendra Setiawan, Yuko Serikawa, Mitsuru Nakamura, Masakatsu Miyajima and Masaho Yoshida

Characteristics and classification of landslide dams associated with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Strong earthquakes are among the prime triggering factors of landslides, which may block rivers, forming landslide dams. Some of these dams may pose serious threats to people and property due to upstream inund...

Authors: Xuanmei Fan, Qiang Xu, Cees J. van Westen, Runqiu Huang and Ran Tang

Seismic vulnerability assessment of residential buildings using logistic regression and geographic information system (GIS) in Pleret Sub District (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

The Southeast of Yogyakarta City has had the heaviest damages to buildings in the 2006 of Yogyakarta Earthquake disaster. A moderate to strong earthquake of 6.3 Mw shook the 20 km southeast part of the Yogyaka...

Authors: Aditya Saputra, Trias Rahardianto, Mohamad Dian Revindo, Ioannis Delikostidis, Danang Sri Hadmoko, Junun Sartohadi and Christopher Gomez

Livelihood resilience in the face of recurring floods: an empirical evidence from Northwest Ethiopia

The recent trend of increasing incidents of floods in Ethiopia is disrupting the livelihoods of a significant proportion of the country’s population. This study assesses the factors that shape the resilience a...

Authors: Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel and Befikadu Esayas Amphune

Spaceborne, UAV and ground-based remote sensing techniques for landslide mapping, monitoring and early warning

The current availability of advanced remote sensing technologies in the field of landslide analysis allows for rapid and easily updatable data acquisitions, improving the traditional capabilities of detection,...

Authors: Nicola Casagli, William Frodella, Stefano Morelli, Veronica Tofani, Andrea Ciampalini, Emanuele Intrieri, Federico Raspini, Guglielmo Rossi, Luca Tanteri and Ping Lu

Landslide hazard map: tool for optimization of low-cost mitigation

Landslide hazard mapping is a fundamental tool for disaster management activities in fragile mountainous terrains. The main purpose of this study is to carry out landslide hazard assessment by weights-of-evide...

Authors: Bhim Kumar Dahal and Ranjan Kumar Dahal

Perception of the risk of tsunami in a context of high-level risk assessment and management: the case of the fjord Lyngen in Norway

North Norway, the banks of the fjord Lyngen are highly exposed to a rockslide tsunami hazard. However, the local municipality believes that the coastal community is well-informed about the risk and ready to ev...

Authors: Lydie Goeldner-Gianella, Delphine Grancher, Øystein Robertsen, Brice Anselme, Daniel Brunstein and Franck Lavigne

Monitoring of the vibration induced on the Arno masonry embankment wall by the conservation works after the May 25, 2016 riverbank landslide

The concepts of disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management involve the development, improvement, and application of policies, strategies, and practices to minimize disaster risks throughout society. ...

Authors: Veronica Pazzi, Alessia Lotti, Paolo Chiara, Luca Lombardi, Massimiliano Nocentini and Nicola Casagli

The role of initial coherence and path materials in the dynamics of three rock avalanche case histories

Rock avalanches are flow-like landslides that can travel at extremely rapid velocities and impact surprisingly large areas. The mechanisms that lead to the unexpected mobility of these flows are unknown and de...

Authors: Jordan Aaron, Scott McDougall, Jeffrey R. Moore, Jeffrey A. Coe and Oldrich Hungr

Consequences of Koshi flood 2008 in terms of sedimentation characteristics and agricultural practices

Koshi flood of August 2008 in eastern lowlands of Nepal affected around 2.64 million people in India and Nepal, including 65,000 people and 700 ha fertile land in Nepal. It was calculated that 25% of the affec...

Authors: K. R. Kafle, S. N. Khanal and R. K. Dahal

The failure of the Stava Valley tailings dams (Northern Italy): numerical analysis of the flow dynamics and rheological properties

Tailings dams are made up of mining residue deposits, and they represent a high risk, in terms of mechanical instability. In the event of collapse, the tailings in such dams may be released and flow over long ...

Authors: Marina Pirulli, Monica Barbero, Maddalena Marchelli and Claudio Scavia

SPH propagation back-analysis of Baishuihe landslide in south-western China

Landslides and landslide dams are a major natural hazard causing high socioeconomic risk in inhabited mountainous areas. This is also true for vast parts of south-western China, which are highly prone to slope...

Authors: Anika Braun, Xueliang Wang, Stefano Petrosino and Sabatino Cuomo

Report of the 14th International Symposium on Geo-Disaster Reduction on 10–13 October 2016 in Chengdu, China

The 14th International Symposium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ISGdR) was held on 10–13 October 2016 in Chengdu, China. The 15th ISGdR is to be held at the Shimane University in Matsue, Japan from 26 to 31 August...

Authors: Hufeng Yang, Qiangong Cheng and Fawu Wang

Acknowledgements to referees in 2015

In 2015, Geoenvironmental Disasters published 26 articles. Besides the appreciation to the authors who contributed their works to the journal, we want to express our sincere acknowledgement to the referees, wh...

Authors: Fawu Wang

ASCHFLOW - A dynamic landslide run-out model for medium scale hazard analysis

Landslides hazard analyses entail a scale-dependent approach in order to mitigate accordingly the damages and other negative consequences at the respective scales of occurrence. Medium or large scale landslide...

Authors: Byron Quan Luna, Jan Blahut, Theo van Asch, Cees van Westen and Melanie Kappes

Grasp and evaluation of the unsaturated seepage behavior of soil by using MRI

It is essential for residents to understand ground disaster and improve disaster prevention awareness, because natural disasters have occurred frequently in recent years. In this study, nondestructive unsatura...

Authors: Hiroaki Fujimori, Kohei Araki, Keiichi Masutani, Hiroshi Kumagai, Hajime Sakamoto and Hiroshi Onishi

Coseismic landslide susceptibility assessment using geographic information system

Indonesia is one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world. More than 14,000 earthquakes of magnitude greater than 5 occurred in Indonesia between 1897 and 2009. Earthquakes are a major cause of slop...

Authors: Aditya Saputra, Christopher Gomez, Danang Sri Hadmoko and Junun Sartohadi

Analysis of a historical landslide in the Rječina River Valley, Croatia

Large landslides triggered by rainfall and floods were registered on both sides of the Rječina River Valley, near City of Rijeka, in Croatia, where numerous instability phenomena in the past 250 years have bee...

Authors: Sanja Dugonjić Jovančević, Josip Peranić, Igor Ružić and Željko Arbanas

Coupling GIS and remote sensing techniques for coastal zone disaster management: the case of Southern Mississippi

Since hurricane Katrina, developer and planners are looking at a tools and sustainable ways to minimize vulnerabilities in events of disasters especially along the coast. In this setting, remote sensing and Ge...

Authors: Yaw A. Twumasi, Edmund C. Merem and Tomas Ayala-Silva

SPH-based numerical modeling for the post-failure behavior of the landslides triggered by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake triggered many fast landslides in Kyushu Region, Japan, which caused great damages and increased difficulty of rescue after the earthquake. The post-failure behavior analysis of th...

Authors: Zili Dai, Fawu Wang, Yu Huang, Kun Song and Akinori Iio

UAV- based Photogrammetry and Geocomputing for Hazards and Disaster Risk Monitoring – A Review

The unraveling of the human-induced climate-change crisis has put to the forth the ability of human-beings to impact the planet as a whole, but the discourse of politics has also emphasized the ability of the ...

Authors: Christopher Gomez and Heather Purdie

A study of variation in soil gas concentration associated with earthquakes near Indo-Burma Subduction zone

In the recent past, several efforts have been made by a number of researchers to measure anomalous emanations of geo-gases in seismic prone regions of the world and radon has been the most preferred geo-gas as...

Authors: Sanjay Singh, Hari Prasad Jaishi, Raghavendra Prasad Tiwari and Ramesh Chandra Tiwari

The impact of rainfall time series with different length in a landslide warning system, in the framework of changing precipitation trends

This study explores some possible impacts that climate change could have in regional scale landslide early warning systems based on rainfall thresholds. The early warning system of the Emilia Romagna region (I...

Authors: Samuele Segoni, Ascanio Rosi, Daniela Lagomarsino, Riccardo Fanti and Nicola Casagli

A hybrid approach of rough-fuzzy inference system for land degradation susceptibility mapping (case study: Khanmirza agricultural plain-Iran)

Land degradation is considered a serious social, economic, and environmental issue in all parts of the world. The fight against this deleterious phenomenon is now an international priority. The mapping of land...

Authors: Mohammadreza Rezvani, Hassanali Faraji Sabokbar, Shahabeddin Taghipour Javi and Hossein Nasiri

Performance of frequency ratio and logistic regression model in creating GIS based landslides susceptibility map at Lompobattang Mountain, Indonesia

The purposes of this study is to create a landslide susceptibility map (LSM) for Lompobattang Mountain area in Indonesia. The foot of the Lompobattang Mountain area suffered flash flood and landslides in 2006,...

Authors: Abdul Rachman Rasyid, Netra P. Bhandary and Ryuichi Yatabe

How sample size can effect landslide size distribution

Landslide size distribution is widely found to obey a negative power law with a rollover in the smaller size, and has been exploited by many researchers to inspect landside physics or to assess landslide erosi...

Authors: Langping Li, Hengxing Lan and Yuming Wu

Application of paleostress analysis for the identification of potential instability precursors within the Benue Trough Nigeria

Structures such as faults, joints and fractures of diverse patterns have acted as precursors of several slope instability cases within the Benue Trough Nigeria. In some cases, the structures by their nature we...

Authors: Ogbonnaya Igwe and Ikenna Anthony Okonkwo

Erratum to: Reassessment of the development and hazard of the Rampac Grande landslide, Cordillera Negra, Peru

Authors: Vít Vilímek, Jan Klimeš and Marco Zapata Torres

Climate change projection for the marsyangdi river basin, Nepal using statistical downscaling of GCM and its implications in geodisasters

There is a very high uncertainty in the future climate change in the Himalayas and few studies has been carried out towards predicting future climate scenario in the Nepal Himalayas. In this study, climate cha...

Authors: Dibesh Khadka and Dinesh Pathak

New sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of tsunami flooding related to an older events along the Tangier-Asilah coastal plain, Morocco

Despite a position along the passive margin of Africa, the Moroccan Atlantic coast is under the influence of the tsunami threat from earthquakes triggered along the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary. Along Tangier,...

Authors: Hajar El Talibi, Said El Moussaoui, Mohamed Najib Zaghloul, Khadija Aboumaria, Patrick Wassmer and Jean Luc Mercier

Rural earthen roads impact assessment in Phewa watershed, Western region, Nepal

This work describes current research being conducted in the Phewa watershed, near Pokhara in Nepal’s Middle hills, a moist sub-tropical zone with the highest amount of annual rainfall in Nepal (4,500–5,000 mm)...

Authors: Geoffroy Leibundgut, Karen Sudmeier-Rieux, Sanjaya Devkota, Michel Jaboyedoff, Marc-Henri Derron, Ivanna Penna and Liliane Nguyen

Effect of long duration rainstorm on stability of Red-clay slopes

Slope stability issue in red clay slopes during rainfall is one among the serious geoenvironmental disasters in China. In order to investigate the effect of long duration rainstorm on red-clay slopes, studies ...

Authors: Kaixi Xue, Beena Ajmera, Binod Tiwari and Yanxiang Hu

Some important considerations in analysis of earthquake-induced landslides

The frequency of landslide disasters is increasing as a result of exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, and greater population vulnerability due to growing urbanization and uncontrolled land-use. E...

Authors: Brian Carlton, Amir M. Kaynia and Farrokh Nadim

Flood risk assessment and mapping in Abidjan district using multi-criteria analysis (AHP) model and geoinformation techniques, (cote d’ivoire)

Flood is one of the most destructive natural disasters of climate change effects in West Africa. Flood risk occurrence is a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, which calls for a better understand...

Authors: Jean Homian Danumah, Samuel Nii Odai, Bachir Mahaman Saley, Joerg Szarzynski, Michael Thiel, Adjei Kwaku, Fernand Koffi Kouame and Lucette You Akpa

Critical hydraulic gradients for seepage-induced failure of landslide dams

Landslide dams formed by rock avalanche processes usually fail by seepage erosion. This has been related to the complex sedimentological characteristics of rock avalanche dams which are mostly dominated by fra...

Authors: Austin Chukwueloka-Udechukwu Okeke and Fawu Wang

Knowledge based landslide susceptibility mapping in the Himalayas

Landslides are common geological hazard occurring in the mountainous region. The Himalayan belt is prone to landslide disasters, which is directly linked to the prosperity and development of the area. The pres...

Authors: Dinesh Pathak

Effects of topographic and geological features on building damage caused by 2015.4.25 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal: a preliminary investigation report

The 2015.4.25 Gorkha earthquake affected about eight million people in Nepal. Most injuries and loss of life were due to building collapse and damage. This work aims to investigate the topographical and geolog...

Authors: Fawu Wang, Masakatsu Miyajima, Ranjan Dahal, Manita Timilsina, Tonglu Li, Makoto Fujiu, Yohei Kuwada and Quanli Zhao

A new classification of earthquake-induced landslide event sizes based on seismotectonic, topographic, climatic and geologic factors

This paper reviews the classical and some particular factors contributing to earthquake-triggered landslide activity. This analysis should help predict more accurately landslide event sizes, both in terms of p...

Authors: Hans-Balder Havenith, Almaz Torgoev, Anika Braun, Romy Schlögel and Mihai Micu

Reassessment of the development and hazard of the Rampac Grande landslide, Cordillera Negra, Peru

The initial investigation analysed the complex Rampac Grande slope deformation from April 2009 (Landslides 8(3):309-320, 2011). The primary research in 2009 also identified an unrealistic explanation (raw mine...

Authors: Vít Vilímek, Jan Klimeš and Marco Torres Zapata

Hydromechanical constraints on piping failure of landslide dams: an experimental investigation

Understanding the internal structure and material properties of landslide dams is essential for evaluating their potential failure mechanisms, especially by seepage and piping. Recent research has shown that t...

Authors: Austin Chukwueloka-Udechukwu Okeke and Fawu Wang

Mountain hazard susceptibility and livelihood security in the upper catchment area of the river Beas, Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India

Natural hazards have had significant impacts on life, livelihood and property in the mountain regions. Hazards identification in high mountain areas involved intensive and lengthy fieldwork and mapping with th...

Authors: Abhay S. Prasad, Bindhy W. Pandey, Walter Leimgruber and Ripu M. Kunwar

Snow cover dynamics and geohazards: a case study of Bhilangna watershed, Uttarakhand Himalaya, India

This study examines snow covered area (SCA) and associated geohazards in the Bhilangna watershed using the Normalized Difference Snow Index. Two Landsat images from 1990 and 2010 were analyzed. In order to est...

Authors: Manish Kumar and Pankaj Kumar

Disaster resilient vernacular housing technology in Nepal

Disasters like earthquakes and flood cause enormous loss of lives and property in Nepal frequently. However, during such events particular types of houses are found to be more resilient than common types of ho...

Authors: Dipendra Gautam, Jyoti Prajapati, Kuh Valencia Paterno, Krishna Kumar Bhetwal and Pramod Neupane

Socio-economic characteristics of the community that determine ability to uptake precautionary measures to mitigate flood disaster in Kano Plains, Kisumu County, Kenya

Kano Plains, Kisumu County, Kenya experiences more severe river floods which is slow onset and predictable. The cost of annual relief and rehabilitation measures in Kano Plains alone is estimated at Kshs 57 mi...

Authors: Joyce Okayo, Peter Odera and Stanley Omuterema

Seismites in the Pleistocene succession and recurrence period of large earthquakes in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Kathmandu Valley, which is a rapidly growing place in Nepal, was largely damaged by the earthquakes of April 25 (Mw 7.8) and May 12 (Mw 7.3). For taking measures against future large earthquakes, knowledge of ...

Authors: T. Sakai, A. P. Gajurel and H. Tabata

Investigation for the initiation of a loess landslide based on the unsaturated permeability and strength theory

The Yanlian landslide, occurring on 21-22 October 2010, destroyed many facilities of a big oil refinery in Shaan’xi Province, China. It led to a suspending of the refinery work for a week and caused near 700 m...

Authors: Ping Li, Xingting Zhang and Hao Shi

Impact of climate change on the severity, duration, and frequency of drought in a semi-arid agricultural basin

Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing the world today and future generations. A change in climate can alter the frequency and duration of drought especially in arid and semi-arid regions. This s...

Authors: Atie Hosseinizadeh, Hesam SeyedKaboli, Heidar Zareie, Ali Akhondali and Babak Farjad

Impacts of human activities and climate change on the water environment of Lake Poyang Basin, China

The global mean temperature has risen by 0.85 °C from 1880 to 2012, and this increase may even accelerate in the future. The surface temperatures of large inland water bodies worldwide have been rapidly warmin...

Authors: Xinyan Li, Lu Zhang, Guishan Yang, Hengpeng Li, Bin He, Yuwei Chen and Xuguang Tang

Geomorphological investigations on landslide dams

The study of past landslide dams and their consequences has gained a considerable significance for forecasting induced hydraulic risk on people and property.

Authors: Carlo Tacconi Stefanelli, Filippo Catani and Nicola Casagli