Sentence examples for large scale landslides from inspiring English sources

Several old to active and small scale to large scale landslides can be observed in this section.

The relationships between climatic events, large scale landslides and torrential transport of sediment by the rivers remain unclear.

In mountainous areas including epicentral area, non-engineered masonry structures were severely damaged, and traces of medium to large scale landslides and rock falls were frequently observed.

However, from our investigation and other related investigations (Collins and Jibson 2015a; Collins and Jibson 2015b; Hashash et al. 2015; Pandey and Mishra 2015), it is found that the amount of the large scale landslides is limited.

Medium or large scale landslide run-out modelling for many possible landslide initiation areas has been a very difficult task in the past.

Statistically, under the same slope condition, larger scale landslides always show a higher mobility (Okuda [1984]).

Taiwan generally has large-scale landslides and torrential rainfall during the typhoon season.

This typhoon first engendered a considerable amount of rainfall and subsequently triggered large-scale landslides, resulting in more than hundreds of deaths in the south of Taiwan.

In addition, it was also demonstrated that the concave terrain was more stable, after large-scale landslides were observed to have occurred in the loess areas (Fig. 18).

The slope gradients of large-scale landslides tend to be gentle, at approximately 18°, which implies that most of the paleo-landslides in the study area are stable.

Therefore, they have been used recently to investigate large-scale landslides and volcanoes, as well as in mineral and hydrocarbon explorations.