Earthquake-triggered damming landslides threaten downstream residents and affect the regional landscape by disrupting water and sediment fluxes. Therefore, it is essential to study the distribution characteristics and distinctive controlling factors...
Landslide dams, especially stable landslide dams, have been recognised as important contributors to regional geomorphological evolution. The eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau provides good conditions for the formation of stable landslide dams. To i...
The upper reaches of the Nu River have strong tectonic activities and broken rock mass structures, often causing landslide disasters. The Zhuangfang landslide has apparent signs of surface deformation, and there is a risk of further sliding and block...
Landslide-generated impulse waves of a mountain-river reservoir will endanger the dam body’s stability and the dam structure’s safety and even pose a significant threat to the property safety of downstream residents. Timely prediction of...
Overtopping failure often occurs in landslide dams, resulting in the formation of strong destructive floods. As an important hydraulic parameter to describe floods, the peak discharge often determines the downstream disaster degree. Based on 67 group...
In the process of mineral development, large-scale flash floods (or debris flows) can be induced by the failure of landslide dams formed by the disorganized stacking of mine waste. In this study, the modes and processes of mine waste dam failures wer...
Understanding the evolving hydrological characteristics of landslide-induced barrier lakes is crucial for flood control, forecasting, early warning, and safety measures in reservoir areas. This study examines the changes in the hydrological character...
As a globally renowned alpine gorge region and seismically active zone, the eastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is highly prone to landslide dam formation. Considering unstable landslide dams often pose catastrophic risks to downs...
Large landslides, triggered by earthquakes or heavy rainfall, often obstruct the river’s flow to form landslide dams, causing upstream inundations, and downstream flooding. In Italy, landslide dams are rather widespread along in Alps and Apennines: a...
Landslide dams are dangerous because the outburst floods produced by dam failures seriously threaten life and property downstream. In this study, a series of physical flume tests were conducted to investigate the breaching process of landslide dams w...
Landslide-generated impulse waves in dammed reservoirs run up the reservoir banks as well as the upstream dam slope. If large enough, the waves may overtop and even breach the dam and cause flooding of the downstream area with hazardous consequences....
Landslide dams, typically composed of newly deposited, loose, and heterogeneous materials, are highly susceptible to failure induced by overtopping and seepage, particularly under extreme hydrological conditions. Accurate prediction of such breaching...
In this paper, the research progress made in the methods used for assessing the internal stability of landslide dam soils was reviewed. Influence factors such as the gradation of soil and the stress state in the soil in different analysis methods wer...
In a previous study two pairs of paleo-landslides within an 8 km reach of the upper Yellow River were studied and dated back to ca. 80 ka, however the relationship between these two pairs of paleo-landslides were not explored. This study inferred tha...
Landslide dams, formed by natural disasters or human activities, pose significant challenges for lifespan prediction, which is crucial for effective water conservancy management and disaster prevention. This study proposes a hybrid CNN–Transfor...
In a reservoir area, impulsive landslide surges induced by slope failure may pose huge damage to the dam and the lives in the shoreline areas, which are greatly affected by river channel characteristics. In this study, water depth, the width of the w...
Mountain reservoirs are often exposed to geological hazards, particularly landslides, posing significant risks to dam stability. This study conducted scaled experiments to investigate the surge pressure loads induced by landslides entering reservoirs...
The outburst flood of the Baige landslide dam caused tremendous damage to infrastructure, unfinished hydraulic buildings, roads, and bridges that were built or under construction along the Jinsha River. Can downstream hydraulic buildings, such as hig...
Although landslide early warning and post-assessment is of great interest for mitigating hazards, emergency disposal solutions for properly handling the landslide and dammed lake within a few hours or days to mitigate flood risk are fundamentally cha...
The success rate in landslide susceptibility mapping efforts increased with the advancements in machine learning algorithms and the availability of geospatial data with high spatial and temporal resolutions. Existing data-driven susceptibility mappin...
The barrier lake formed by the high-speed landslide that blocks the river typically faces a high risk of failure due to its loose and fragmented structure, high permeability, and weak erosion resistance. Based on the characteristics of this type of l...
This paper aims to introduce a numerical technique for forecasting the hazard caused by the disaster chain of landslide blocking river-dam breach floods through an integration of the distinct element method (DEM) and a well-balanced finite volume typ...
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As a “starting zone” and “amplifier” of global climate change, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is very responsive to climate change. The global temperature rise has led directly to an acceleration of glacial melting in the pla...
A well-known landslide dam that collapsed and generated a large outburst flood is used to show the importance of forensic geology analysis, which is the on-site multidisciplinary study of geohazards carries out as soon as possible after their occurre...
The landslide in Huta Polańska (Beskid Niski/Lower Beskids) is an example of a particular lake geoecosystem. The largest inter-colluvial depression forms a lake basin constantly filled with water, with a natural outflow in the form of a watercourse....
Landslide mapping and analysis are essential aspects of hazard and risk analysis. Landslides can block rivers and create landslide-dammed lakes, which pose a significant risk for downstream areas. In this research, we used an object-based image analy...
Landslides are usually caused by rainstorms and geological processes such as earthquakes and may have a massive impact on human production and life. The hazard chain of landslide–river blockage–outburst flood is the most common hazard cha...
Landslide hazard management usually requires time-consuming campaigns of data acquisition, elaboration, and modeling. However, in the post-emergency phase management, time is a factor, and simpler but faster methods of analysis are needed to support...
New Japanese regulations governing earth embankment construction were introduced after a debris flow in Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture, caused significant damage. Slope failures block river channels during earthquakes, triggering flooding, inundatio...
The discrimination of river blockages is very important for the risk assessment of landslide disasters and secondary hazards. Experimental studies and statistical analyses were carried out to explore the formation process and discriminant criteria of...
Connectivity of landslide sediment to and within fluvial systems is a key factor affecting the extent of mobilization of hillslope material. In particular, the formation of landslide dams and the transformation into landslide-induced debris flows rep...
Large rainfall-induced landslides are among the most dangerous natural hazards in Taiwan, posing a risk for people and infrastructure. Thus, better knowledge about the evolution of landslides and their impact on the downstream area is of high importa...
A Multi-Resolution Weakly Compressible Moving-Particle Semi-Implicit (MR-WC-MPS) method is presented in this paper for simulation of free-surface flows. To reduce the computational costs, as with the multi-grid schemes used in mesh-based methods, the...
Impulse waves generated by landslides falling into reservoirs may lead to overtopping of a dam and, in turn, to flooding of the downstream area. In the case of an embankment dam, the overtopping may lead to erosion of the downstream slope, ultimately...
Landslides are a typical geological hazard that can cause large numbers of casualties and huge economic losses, and the overflow of a weir from a blocked river landslide can have even more disastrous consequences. Of the different types of landslides...
Remote sensing plays an increasingly important role in the investigation of natural hazards, not only by obtaining specific data related to hazards, but also by realizing targeted research by combining with other data and/or technologies. Small-scale...
This paper incorperates Bingham and bi-viscosity rheology models with the Navier–Stokes solver to simulate the dynamics and kinematics processes of slumps for tsunami generation. The rheology models are integrated into a computational fluid dyn...
Landslide hazard chains pose significant threats in mountainous areas worldwide, yet their cascading effects remain insufficiently studied. This study proposes an integrated framework to systematically assess the landslide-landslide dam-outburst floo...
It is crucial to predict landslide displacement accurately for establishing a reliable early warning system. Such a requirement is more urgent for landslides in the reservoir area. The main reason is that an inaccurate prediction can lead to riverine...
Debris flows represent a significant geohydrological hazard, impacting the surrounding environment and threatening human settlements by altering ecological equilibria. The formation of temporary, often unstable, natural dams that obstruct normal rive...
This study reconstructed the annual lake surface area (LSA) and absolute lake water storage (LWS) changes of Lake Sarez, the world’s largest high-altitude landslide-dammed lake, from 1992 to 2023 using multi-source remote sensing data. All avai...
The journal retracts the article titled “Forecasting the Landslide Blocking River Process and Cascading Dam Breach Flood Propagation by an Integrated Numerical Approach: A Reservoir Area Case Study” [...]
Outburst floods resulting from giant landslide dams can cause devastating damage to hundreds or thousands of kilometres of a river. Accurate and timely delineation of flood inundated areas is essential for disaster assessment and mitigation. There ha...
Advances in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry have enabled the seamless monitoring of the Earth’s crust deformation. The dense archive of the Sentinel-1 Copernicus mission provides unprecedented spatial and temporal coverage; howeve...
Debris content plays an important role in controlling erosion capacity and sedimentation characteristics during outburst floods. Numerical models should incorporate sediments in hazard analyses to obtain more accurate assessments of outburst flood ma...
The temporary or permanent river blocking event caused by mass movement usually occurs on steep terrain. With the increase of mountain population and land use pressure and the construction of water conservancy and hydropower projects, river blocking...
Prediction of possible landslide areas is the first stage of landslide hazard mitigation efforts and is also crucial for suitable site selection. Several statistical and machine learning methodologies have been applied for the production of landslide...
The aim of this work is to investigate the causes of the El Descargador tailings dam failure, at the mine district Cartagena–La Unión (SE Spain), in October 1963. Dam stability back analyses have been carried out by applying a geotechnical and geophy...
Traditional Newmark models estimate earthquake-induced landslide hazards by calculating permanent displacements exceeding the critical acceleration, which is determined from static factors of safety and hillslope geometries. However, these studies ty...
Landslide-induced impulse waves (LIIWs) are significant natural hazards, frequently occurring in mountain reservoirs, which threaten the safety of waterways and dam project. To predict the impact of impulse waves induced by Rongsong (RS) potential la...
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