Sentence examples for shallow debris from inspiring English sources

In Santos, nineteen risk areas were mapped and according to the records, it is a form of mass wasting that includes a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep failure of slopes, and shallow debris flows (related to soil destabilization and instability of natural slopes).

Three major landslide regions are recognized in the study area: coastal hills with rockfalls, shallow debris flows and old rotational rockslides denudational slopes in limestone, with very large deep-seated rockslides related to tectonic activity and the Sierra de Caujerí scarp, with large rockslides.

Mass movements, especially shallow landslides and debris flows, are often triggered by heavy rainfall.

However, during heavy rainfall events, shallow landslides and debris flows are commonly triggered around the rim of Aso caldera (Miyabuchi et al. 2004, 2007; Miyase 2012; Matsushi et al. 2013).

In the early morning of 20 August 2014, a high-intensity/short-duration, localized rainfall event triggered many shallow slides and debris flows in the Asakita and Asaminami Wards in the northern part of Hiroshima City, Japan.

The aim of this study is the development of objective and replicable methodologies for the identification, analysis and characterization of rainfall events responsible for the triggering of shallow landslides and debris flows, in order to define empirical rainfall thresholds.

Today, they are shallow mounds of blackened debris, or just holes in the ground.

The average value of shallow landslide in the debris flows is 3.03.

On these steep slopes, the sliding mass created after the occurrence of shallow landslides transformed into debris flows during heavy rainfall.

During the same night, the persisting rainfall triggered more than 600 landslides, such as shallow soil slides and debris flows, on an area of about 50 km2.

In this case study the vulnerability of buildings to debris flows, shallow landslides and river flooding for emergency planning and for general risk reduction purposes is assessed.