While severe landslides have occurred recently (in Vaima and Marae in 2010, many villages in 2015), they are not that frequent On an island with three large dormant volcanic mountains, landslides are common and communities understand the risk.
Erosion is driven almost exclusively by high-intensity rainfall events in both forested coastal mountains (where landslides are the dominant sediment delivery mechanism) and interior semi-arid regions (where surface erosion dominates) (Beechie et al. 2003).
Jiwei Mountain, where the Wulong landslide occurred, is located in southwest China.
The wire-pulling trigger displacement meter, grid pluviometer, data acquisition and transmission unit, and solar power supply device are integrated to form a comprehensive monitoring hardware system for Highway landslide in mountain area, which proven to be economical, energy-saving, automatic and high efficient.
Dynamite used to blast tunnels destabilised mountain slopes causing numerous landslides.
Some villages were reachable only by air after landslides blocked mountain roads.
The children are scared when the tremors happen, and I think it is worse in the mountain because they cause landslides.
Meanwhile, new landslides blocked mountain roads in the district of Gorkha, one of the regions hit hardest on 25 April, and previously damaged buildings collapsed with the latest quake.
Outside Kathmandu, the relief effort has relied heavily on helicopters, with mountain roads blocked by landslides triggered by the earthquake.
While earthquakes have often been blamed for rock failures and landslides on mountain slopes, scientists also point at global temperature rises for rapid thawing of snowfields and glacial melt that can disturb the flow of snow-fed rivers.
In Salt Lake City, planners are also concerned about the risk of flooding from waves in the Great Salt Lake and landslides in mountain canyons during a major earthquake.
