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Scale-invariance of soil moisture variability and its implications for the frequency-size distribution of landslides
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In this paper, the authors present the cumulative frequency-size distributions of landslides induced by precipitation in Japan and Bolivia as well as landslides triggered by the 1994 Northridge, California earthquake.About:
This article is published in Engineering Geology.The article was published on 1997-12-01. It has received 191 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cohesion (geology) & Landslide.read more
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Self-organized criticality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced the concept of self-organized criticality to explain the behavior of the sandpile model, where particles are randomly dropped onto a square grid of boxes and when a box accumulates four particles they are redistributed to the four adjacent boxes or lost off the edge of the grid.
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Landslide inventories and their statistical properties
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined three well-documented landslide events, from Italy, Guatemala and the USA, each with a different triggering mechanism, and found that the landslide areas for all three are well approximated by the same three-parameter inverse-gamma distribution.
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Probabilistic landslide hazard assessment at the basin scale
TL;DR: In this article, a probabilistic model is proposed to determine landslide hazard at the basin scale, where landslides will occur, how frequently they will occur and how large they will be.
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Recommendations for the quantitative analysis of landslide risk
Jordi Corominas,C.J. van Westen,Paolo Frattini,Leonardo Cascini,Jean-Philippe Malet,Stavroula Fotopoulou,Filippo Catani,M. van den Eeckhaut,Olga Mavrouli,Federico Agliardi,Kyriazis Pitilakis,Mike G. Winter,Manuel Pastor,Settimio Ferlisi,Veronica Tofani,Javier Hervás,J.T. Smith +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present recommended methodologies for the quantitative analysis of landslide hazard, vulnerability and risk at different spatial scales (site-specific, local, regional and national), as well as for the verification and validation of the results.
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Comparing landslide inventory maps
TL;DR: In this article, a general framework for the quantitative comparison of landslide inventory maps is proposed, based on the experience gained in 20 years of landslide mapping in Italy, and on the limited literature on landslide inventory assessment.
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Dynamic Scaling of Growing Interfaces
TL;DR: A model is proposed for the evolution of the profile of a growing interface that exhibits nontrivial relaxation patterns, and the exact dynamic scaling form obtained for a one-dimensional interface is in excellent agreement with previous numerical simulations.
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Self-organized criticality
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that certain extended dissipative dynamical systems naturally evolve into a critical state, with no characteristic time or length scales, and the temporal fingerprint of the self-organized critical state is the presence of flicker noise or 1/f noise; its spatial signature is the emergence of scale-invariant (fractal) structure.
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Effects of Earthquakes on Dams and Embankments
TL;DR: In this paper, the British Geotechnical Society for the opportunity of visiting London' again and for the honour of appearing before you in the home of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of which I am so proud to be a member.
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Landslides caused by earthquakes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the characteristics, geologic environments, and hazards of landslides caused by seismic events and found that the maximum area likely to be affected by landslides in a seismic event increases from approximately 0 at M ≅ 4.0 to 500,000 km2 at M = 9.2.