Population activities such as the cutting of trees without replacement, agricultural and human settlement facilitate landslides occurrence.
The human population increases the landslide risk in China, notably through imprudent land-use practices including careless water management.
Local iwi are asking the public to avoid the eastern side of Ōkurei Point in Maketū after a landslide unearthed human remains.
In the most extreme case, like in the event of a landslide or human development taking out a whole reef colony, the super coral can be planted in its place as a stronger, new colony.
Close inspection against Google imagery also revealed that suppressed ACD levels along slopes (greens-blues; Figure S2, Additional file 1) were caused either by natural landslides or human activities.
These have been coupled with frequent heavy precipitation and accelerating human impact to produce frequent landslide problems.
But while peaceful today, 20 years ago this valley was rocked as Mount St. Helens exploded in an eruption so powerful that it shot ash and steam out at more than 200 miles an hour, filled this broad valley with the largest landslide in recorded human history and flattened trees over hundreds of square miles -- in minutes, changing this landscape forever.
The damage area typically depends on the landslide volume, whereas human survival is strongly influenced by the velocity; people can easily escape from the area affected by slow landslides, whereas they cannot escape from fast landslides.
Due to human activity to effect the landslide susceptibility, it was simply determined by whether the slope area had been used for vegetation or not.
This event and similar recent earthquakes, such as the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 and the Kashmir earthquake of 8 October 2005, have underscored the threat that earthquake-induced landslides represent to human life, property, built environment and infrastructure in mountainous and hilly regions of the world.
