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Researchers in the U.S. have come up with a new method that could potentially predict underwater landslides before they ...
Landslide stabilization efforts are likely to be costly as Buncombe County has sought to develop a model for major landslide projects across WNC.
Below ocean wind farms, oil rigs and other offshore installations are mammoth networks of underwater structures, including ...
Rescue teams have used drone photography and 3D modeling, which they cross-reference with historical satellite images, to ...
GENEVA (AP) — Swiss authorities on Monday expanded the evacuation of an Alpine village threatened by a possible landslide, ...
Engineers have developed a groundbreaking computational model to study the movement of granular materials such as soils, sands and powders. By integrating the dynamic interactions among particles, air ...
A research team from the School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new ...
Of 134 written submissions, about 87% were in favour of the Wairarapa-Tararua model. Submitter Leah Hawkins said the Wairarapa-Tararua option was “not just being presented as the preferred ...
Among them: modeling when and where landslides might happen, determining how to respond when they do occur, and making zoning and land-use decisions that could put fewer people at risk.
In October, the State government invoked the Disaster Management Act, 2005 to acquire the land for two model townships ... He said the landslide-displaced families had requested that they live ...
knowledge of the areas in which landslides occurred, including topographical, geological and other data, is extrapolated for other areas. “We currently have digital elevation models with a spatial ...
Silver's model defines a landslide as a double-digit popular vote margin. By this definition, the model predicts Harris' chances to achieve this at 1.1 percent, and Trump's at 0.1 percent.