Sentences with phrase «landslides occurring»

Giant lateral collapses are huge landslides occurring at the flanks of a volcano.

In previous earthquakes in mountainous terrain, many earthquake - initiated landslides occurred from minutes to years after the initial quake.

«A lot of people assume that all landslides occur in the same areas, but those triggered by rainfall or human behavior have a different triggering mechanism than landslides caused by earthquakes so we need dedicated studies.»

Most of the documented landslides occurred in areas where the ground surface dropped down, rather than in the areas where the ground was uplifted.

While some landslides occur in populated areas and are observed directly, many happen in remote, unpopulated regions.

Landslides occur when the shaking is strong enough to move a slope downhill and liquefaction is a process where strong shaking can reduce the strength of saturated and loose soils and turn them into a substance more jelly - like than solid.

On Mother's Day in 1999, eight people were killed and more than 30 people were injured when an unexpected landslide occurred at Sacred Falls.

Nine months after this disaster, another landslide occurred but this time the local response was more proactive and helped saved many people.

«In villages, people can build wherever they want; then when flooding or landslides occur, there is loss of life,» he said.

Not exact matches

How do you explain how the landslide that dammed up the Jordan occurred exactly when the priests feet touched the waters edge (Joshua 3)

Chad wrote,» How do you explain how the landslide that dammed up the Jordan occurred exactly when the priests feet touched the waters edge (Joshua 3)»

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it will proffer immediate solution to the recent landslide that occurred in Tuomo Community, Burutu Local Government...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it will proffer immediate solution to the recent landslide that occurred in Tuomo Community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta.

However, the flume - lab experiments suggest that a debris flow can occur in a steep river channel in the absence of such a landslide, simply as a result of increased water discharge over the streambed.

Although this is one of the best - mapped continental margins in the world, significant gaps still remain along the upper slope and shelf where potentially dangerous submarine landslides might occur.

The scientists have recently begun the difficult task of collecting long core samples of sediment from the sites of large landslides, a critical step in determining when they happened and how often they and their associated tsunamis are likely to occur.

In a November 2007 interview with state news agency Xinhua, State Council's Wang claimed that «no major geological disasters or related casualties» had occurred since the reservoir's water level was raised in 2006; five days later, the earth in Badong crumbled and the railroad tunnel landslide wiped out the bus and its passengers.

Submarine landslides, like the one at Storegga, seem to have occurred frequently as the last ice sheets receded, as well as at the end of previous glaciations.

The 4,312 landslides that happened within six weeks after the quake were far fewer than occurred after similar - magnitude quakes in other mountainous areas.

The research team is currently investigating why there were fewer landslides than expected and why they occurred where they did.

This is a big deal because it can affect so many processes that occur from the coast to the open ocean including marine organisms» lifecycles and underwater landslides,» said lead author San Diego State University Assistant Professor Jillian Maloney, who conducted this research as a post-doctoral researcher at LSU.

Six of these tiny tremors occurred between the two parts of the landslide, five happened during the two days after the slide, and one was detected 10 days later, on April 20.

Indeed, Ekström and Stark's analysis revealed that a set of landslides that fell onto the Siachen Glacier near the India - Pakistan border in September 2010 actually included seven slides that occurred over a period of 4 days.

The finding may be particularly useful in identifying and characterizing landslides that occur in steep, remote areas where few people live — not because of their immediate effects, but because such slumps can block rivers and impound lakes that could later breach the natural dams and threaten populated areas downstream.

Seismic data may provide a way for scientists to quickly detect and characterize giant landslides that occur in remote regions, such as the one that hit northern Pakistan in January 2010, blocking a river and forming

Huge landslides, which seem to have occurred after the boulders were deposited, have blanketed much of the crater floors.

Landslides typically occur when an outside force — like rainfall or an earthquake — destabilizes the layers of rock and soil that make up a mountainside.

Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat like the Moon, yet some of the craters outside that region formed on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock on the surface.

Shea is part of a team of researchers from ICIMOD, NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, British Geological Survey and Durham University that have been using high resolution satellite images to identify landslides that have already occurred as well as where others are likely.

«We are discussing with the regent and the Disaster Mitigation Agency [BPBD] possible scenarios if another downpour occurs as the landslide blocked waterways, which can endanger residential areas,» the governor said.

«Temporary reports from the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agencies [BPBDs] to the BNPB post reveal that floods and landslides have occurred in seven regencies, namely Banjarnegara, Banyumas, Karanganyar, Kebumen, Purworejo, Wonogiri and Wonosobo and in Surakarta,» BNPB spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said as quoted by kompas.com in a statement on Sunday.

A section of Highway 1 in Big Sur, California was closed due to a landslide that occurred on May 20th.

Landslides have always been an issue for the city due to its steep hills, clay soil and narrow valleys, but they usually occur in late spring and early early summer.

The slide occurred in two main phases, but researchers used infrasound recordings and seismic data to discover 11 additional landslides that occurred between the two main events.

Hours after the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake hit New Zealand, researchers were able to share information with first responders about where significant landsliding might have occurred to block roads and...