Sentence examples for level of landslide from inspiring English sources

They also found that the level of landslide occurrence was high on the middle slopes.

The higher the value of Tp index was, the higher the susceptibility level of landslide occurrence.

The value of Rsv > 75% is considered as catastrophic level of landslide hazard.

The five classes include very low, low, moderate, high and very high describing the level of landslide susceptibility (proneness) in the study area.

The results suggest that peak ground acceleration of approximately 0.3 g is considered as the critical magnitude of ground acceleration that would result in a nearly 100% probability of catastrophic level of landslide hazard in the area.

Priyono, et al. (2011) found that the high level of landslide vulnerability was characterised as middle to upper slope area with steep to very steep slopes (>60%), which displayed a high level of weathering and erosion.

On further investigation, they found that young forest stands <6 years old and pastured hill slopes at the time of Cyclone Bola sustained similar levels of landslide damage and up to 16 times greater than for either exotic plantings or indigenous forest where the canopy was fully closed.

The west flank of Baturagung Escarpment is dominated by moderate level of coseismic landslide with an average Coseismic Landslide Susceptibility Level (CLSL) of 33 162.

"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 aim of this article is to describe the recent state of development of the catastrophic Rampac Grande complex landslide (Fig. 1) and to use newly available information to reassess the hazard level of this landslide for the local community, because we suppose that this experience might be useful for other landslide prone areas in Calleyon de Huaylas (Department Ancash).

This paper presents a seismic microzonation study performed in an area of the Northern Apennines (Italy) in order to reduce the level of risk from landslide hazard, to support decisions in urban planning and to provide useful information for building design.