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But Richard Iverson, a landslide expert at USGS's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, says that a closer look at the seismic data tells a different story.
One of the deadliest landslides in U.S. history was unleashed when part of a mountain collapsed onto a rain-sodden slope, sending a wall of mud shooting through a Washington state neighborhood, according to a federal landslide expert.
But Geologist Dave Petley, a landslide expert, thinks the island's low, arcuate (or bow) shape — as seen in the few pictures released so far — suggests a rotational landslide, rather than a conical mud volcano.
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However, the difficulties associated with the feasibility assessments of the applicability of SAR data to local scale problems, as well as with the interpretation of PS results, require a close collaboration between landslide experts and specialists in advanced processing of radar satellite data.
The International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) is an international, nongovernmental, and nonprofit scientific organization composed of landslide experts and representatives from international parties associated with disaster risk reduction (DRR).
It makes use of nine causal landslide factors identified by local landslide experts.
"It has happened directly beneath the area of greatest landslide density and impact caused by the 25 April earthquake, and my guess is that this quake will cause similar levels of landsliding as in the 25 April earthquake," says Alex Densmore, a landslides expert at Durham University and part of Earthquakes Without Frontiers, a project to increase resilience to earthquakes.
The database is composed by 57 information fields easy to collect and measure even by people that are not landslide dam experts so as to maximize the probability of high accuracy data retrieval during future emergencies.
An expert landslide detection is realized based on four types of data: (1) a comparison of the pre- and post-orthorectified panchromatic image, (2) the high-resolution DSM from 2014, (3) the slopes derived from this DSM, and (4) the height changes between 2014 and 2015.
Insurance experts say landslide insurance is available through only a very small number of specialized carriers and, like private flood insurance, is likely to be expensive.
Seek advice from a Geo-technical expert for evaluating landslide hazards or designing corrective techniques to reduce landslide risk.
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