Sentence examples for reason landslide from inspiring English sources

For this reason, landslide mapping is a primary tool for hazard and risk assessment.

"Infrastructure development is one of the major reason for landslides in India," said Professor Pachauri of the NDMA.

"Each earthquake loosens the sediments on the mountains and the slopes which becomes the primary reason for landslides in the region," he said.

The results of analysis and comparison help us better understand the reasons of landslides in the upper layers of expansive soil slope.

Yet Mr. Carter presided over calamitous double-digit inflation, a big reason for his landslide defeat to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Part of the reason for the landslide is that Fatah ran an inept campaign, often putting forward more than one candidate against a single Hamas candidate, and splitting the vote.

Rodriguez et al. (1999) related this far-distant triggering to the high susceptibility of sensitive clays to slope failure; Keefer (2002) added low regional seismic attenuation and local site amplification as reasons explaining distant landslide occurrences.

The reason for the parliamentary landslide in 1983 was not Thatcher's popularity – her share of the vote fell to 42% – but the loss of votes to the defectors of the SDP and their alliance with the Liberals.

In contrast, Republicans dominate congressional elections, and Barack Obama twice lost Kentucky by a landslide.Various reasons are offered for the Democrats' partial survival.

For these reasons, the study of landslide dams and their consequences has acquired a significant relevance in scientific research for prediction and prevention of flood risk on lives and properties (Canuti et al., 1998; Ermini and Casagli, 2003; Dal Sasso et al., 2014).

The reason may be that the landslide, after having been curved by the impact, flowed nearly parallel to the 300-m-high barrier.