Sentences with phrase «trigger landslides»

It warned heavy rainfall in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, could trigger landslides or mudflows in the area of Three Gorges Dam.

All types of earthquakes can trigger landslides and liquefaction (when soil liquefies during shaking).

Landslides: Earthquakes can trigger landslides, especially in areas with water - saturated soils, a common characteristic of Cascadia.

While earthquakes regularly trigger landslides, the gigantic landslide the night of April 10, 2013, is the first known to have triggered quakes.

Tiny changes in atmospheric pressure between day and night can trigger landslides.

This could trigger landslides on steep submarine slopes in the area, unleashing tsunamis capable of hitting the UK, and releasing buried methane that could amplify global warming.

There are concerns torrential rain in the Philippines, caused by Typhoon Hagupit could now trigger landslides.

The quake also triggered landslides that hindered rescue efforts, officials told state television.

Researchers previously believed that debris flows in mountain terrain primarily derived from rainfall - triggered landslides flowing into watercourses from surrounding hillsides.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

An earthquake in China on the weekend triggered landslides that have blocked rivers and created rapidly growing bodies of water that could unleash more destruction on survivors of the disaster that killed 410 people, state media reported on Thursday.

«The reduced frictional strength is sufficient to trigger landslide movement.»

«Earthquake - triggered landslides pose significant hazard for Seattle, new study details potential damage.»

It made a significant difference to our understanding of the potential damage to Seattle from seismically triggered landslides,» said Allstadt, who would like to use the new framework to run many more scenarios to prepare for future earthquakes in Seattle.

He notes that in 1958 an earthquake in Alaska triggered a landslide into Lituya Bay that generated a wave that climbed 525 meters up the walls of the surrounding valley, the highest ever documented.

Huge volcano - triggered landslides can alter the seabed when they tumble into the ocean and sweep across the sea floor.

Each use of models must be judged on its merits rather than via pejorative generalizations, but I hesitate to trigger another landslide of commentary about the deficiencies of models, so I won't pursue that point further.

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What can trigger a landslide?

To help fill this gap, Kirschbaum and Stanley have developed a system that generates near - real - time estimates of potential rainfall - triggered landslide activity.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt triggered a landslide in the cryptocurrency market last week as traders assessed new regulatory guidelines handed down by South Korea, Japan and the United States.

Not exact matches

Dr Usama Kadri, from Cardiff University's School of Mathematics, believes that lives could ultimately be saved by using acoustic - gravity waves (AGWs) against tsunamis that are triggered by earthquakes, landslides and other violent geological events.

That would pave the way for massive underwater landslides that could trigger tsunamis.

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Bowen says the two relatively rapid carbon releases (about 1,500 years each) are more consistent with warming oceans or an undersea landslide triggering the melting of frozen methane on the seafloor and large emissions to the atmosphere, where it became carbon dioxide within decades.

In a study published in the Chinese journal Tropical Geography in 2003, scholars at Guangzhou's South China Normal University predicted that such tinkering with the water level could trigger activity in 283 landslide - prone areas.

Landslides are usually triggered by rain or snowmelt flowing into the base of a «slump» of loose rock and soil.

«One - third of the landslides triggered by our simulation were outside of the areas designated by the city as prone to landsliding,» said Allstadt.

While landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused damage and casualties worldwide, they have not often been the subject of extensive quantitative study or fully incorporated into seismic hazard assessments, say authors of this study that looks at just one scenario among potentially hundreds for a major earthquake in the Seattle area.

While the history books report several fatal Caribbean tsunamis in the past, Grindlay has found evidence that even larger tsunamis, triggered by underwater landslides, struck the region before 1492.

«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.»

Triggered by heavy rain, the Maoxian landslide swept away homes in Xinmo village, blocking a 2 km section of river and burying 1,600 meters of road.

«We don't know of any case until now where landslides have been shown to trigger earthquakes,» Moore says.

These events were primarily triggered not by earthquakes but by subsequent underwater landslides off the coast of Puerto Rico.

The earthquake triggered giant landslides along Lake Washington, causing entire blocks of forest to slide into the lake.

The new study found the landslide triggered 16 small quakes.

Last year's gigantic landslide at a Utah copper mine probably was the biggest nonvolcanic slide in North America's modern history, and included two rock avalanches that happened 90 minutes apart and surprisingly triggered 16 small earthquakes, University of Utah scientists discovered.

«Mine landslide triggered earthquakes: Record - breaking slide would bury Central Park 66 feet deep.»

Tsunamis triggered by point - source events such as volcanic collapses or submarine landslides are not likely to have as wide an impact because the waves appear to dissipate quickly with distance.

According to a new study in the Cape Verde archipelago, a landslide triggered a tsunami powerful enough to push massive boulders on a neighboring island onto a high plateau.

That figure makes them the largest nonvolcanic slides known in North America in centuries — although the landslide that triggered the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state was about 57 times as voluminous.

Of the 29 largest known landslides worldwide from 1980 through 2012, ground motions from the 27 largest — including the massive slide that triggered the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980, the greatest one yet observed and recorded — were detected by seismic instruments that were part of a global network of instruments.

WHY does one underwater landslide trigger a devastating tsunami, but another of similar size barely cause a ripple?

He thinks that the erosion of landslide debris in such a storm's aftermath triggers a change in fault loading, eventually producing an earthquake.

An ocean engineer at the University of Rhode Island has found that a massive underwater landslide, combined with the 9.0 earthquake, was responsible for triggering the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

Rescuers search for survivors in the debris from the 2009 Jiweishan Mountain landslide, which may have been triggered by air pollution.

* «Can glacial retreat - related landslides trigger volcanic eruptions?

«The abstract proposes that a landslide at Mt Meager has the potential to trigger a volcanic eruption, not just melting glacial ice.

Ground shaking: Ground shaking is both a hazard created by earthquakes and the trigger for other hazards such as liquefaction and landslides.

Intensifying summer rainstorms have triggered huge landslides, damaging roads, power lines and water infrastructure, according to a recent evaluation of satellite images by Austrian climate researchers.