In the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, landslides caused a total of 214 deaths between 1984 and 2012. Efforts have been made, but there is still need to improve the risk area management by discovering the correlations between the rainfall and landslides and by implementing a disaster warning and prevention system in order to reduce the ...
View ArticleThis paper addresses the construction of the soil landslide risk charts of the urban area of the city of Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. A systematic survey of office and field data was considered to elaborate thematic risk charts (lithostructural, geological-geotechnical, slope and soil use and occupation), which when crossed permitted the cons...
View ArticleThe Shallow Stability Model (SHALSTAB) identifies shallow landslide susceptible areas, combining a steady state runoff model that estimates the topographically induced spatial variation in pore pressures with an infinite slope model for shallow landslides. Although the landslides present a strong topographic control, the variability of the soil properti...
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