Statistical approaches that attempt to determine landslide hazard need to account for the complex relationship between plan curvature, type of landslide, and landslide susceptibility.
Normal faulting associated with a great landslide would need to occur at far shallower depths, above the low-angle detachment fault that would connect the offshore fold-and-thrust belt with the normal faults of the headscarp.
If Mr. Bush prevails in the courts he is entitled to govern as if he had won by a landslide, and the country needs him to be able to do so.
For example, the landslide risk reduction measure needs further analysis before a decision can be taken.
"That would mean a riotous convention," Wilder says, quickly adding, "Not in the streets!" He says that Clinton needs a landslide and that the superdelegates will almost certainly "do the right thing".
The Peronists, who control the Congress, acted as if they had suddenly won a landslide election but still needed to designate their candidate.
Before the election, the opposition activists worried that, as one put it, "we will need a landslide victory to handle Mugabe and his thugs".
Because Democratic delegates are divided up proportionately, Sanders would need a landslide victory (and the huge delegate numbers that would come with it) to pose a threat to Clinton.
But where most serious opposition parties in the democratic world would have won by a landslide, the Tory zombie needed the likes of Nick Clegg and Vince Cable to heave its wheezing frame through the doors of No 10.
Yet a prime minister from the Thaksin camp is extremely unlikely - they'd need a landslide win of some 75% to get those 376 seats.
