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Good old bamboo, a certain grass could save hill highways from landslides

Could the answer to lethal landslides on India’s mountainous highways be covering the steep slopes with deep-rooted grasses like Vetiver and reinforcing with bamboo benching? Such measures could prove to be a saviour for states like Uttarakhand, where landslides have become rampant and claim many lives every year even as the state executes a series of highway projects, including the …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Human interventions, excessive rain have combined effect on landslides, reveal post-disaster studies

The Hindu

As the State and Centre continue to engage in a verbal duel over the circumstances that led to the catastrophic landslide in Kerala, the reports of post-disaster studies conducted by Kerala hold human-induced activities chiefly responsible for increased intensity of landslides, although they point to excessive rains as the common trigger factor for the disaster. Post-landslide studies, accessed by The …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Rain set off landslide in Wayanad, change in land use pattern made it lethal: K K Ramachandran

New Indian Express

KOCHI: While social media is blaming the destruction of the Western Ghats as the primary reason for the massive landslide at Mundakkai in Wayanad that claimed over 350 lives, scientist and consultant with the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, K K Ramachandran, said the prime culprit was the torrential rain that battered the area. Changes in land use patterns …

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1 year ago

Their neighbors lost everything in a massive landslide. Now they fear for their homes

LA Times

Sepideh Razipour and her husband never thought they could afford to be homeowners, but when their Rolling Hills Estates rental went up for sale, they scrambled to make the townhouse their own, pulling together savings and borrowing from extended family. “It’s been really hard.” The city of Rolling Hills Estates reported that last winter’s excessive rains caused July’s devastating landslide, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘Unusually heavy’ rains caused Rolling Hills Estates landslide, city report finds

LA Times

Cracked foundations and crumpled homes sit along a canyon on Peartree Lane, where dozens of residents were evacuated and structures condemned after a landslide in July. The report, prepared by an outside geotechnical engineering firm, found “the primary factor that caused the Peartree Lane slope failure was the unusually heavy rainfall that occurred during the winter of 2022-2023.” The 277-page …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Fragile Nainital: Hillside survey planned after landslide, house collapse

Hindustan Times

Authorities are planning a technical survey of the hillside in Nainital where 24 families have been relocated to safer locations in the aftermath of the landslide and house collapse late last month. “After the 1880 landslide in which 151 people were killed, Britishers had developed a 79 km drain network on the hill slopes around Nainital to make them stable. …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Newport Beach house on problematic bluff where landslide hit is demolished

LA Times

A worker Thursday sprays water to control dust clouds as a home at 1930 Galaxy Drive in Newport Beach is demolished. “I’m concerned if we don’t get resources in here to build up that hillside, we could see a catastrophe,” Foley said Tuesday of the remaining properties on Galaxy Drive. “If these three homes fall, a cascading effect may happen …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Joshimath crisis is due to landslide, not subsidence: Experts

Hindustan Times

The extensive damage to buildings and other structures in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath is due to a gradual but accelerated landslide, and not because of land subsidence, a new analysis by an earth scientist has suggested. “Google Earth imagery clearly demonstrates that the town is built on an ancient landslide.” This could have implications for the range or size of the area …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Study on landslip-hit locations in Kerala highlights need to research rainfall dynamics

The Hindu

Amidst rising concerns over the resumption of quarrying on the high ranges in and around Kottayam in Kerala, a latest study on the fatal landslips that struck Koottickal, Kokkayar and Plappally last year attribute these primarily to human interventions and high-intensity rainfall. Sajin Kumar, a member of the Kerala Landslide Expert Committee, and others in association with the Kerala State …

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2 years, 9 months ago

How Hong Kong protects people from dangerous landslides

BBC

How Hong Kong protects people from dangerous landslides Hong Kong Government Faced with the prospect of worsening landslides due to climate change, Hong Kong is working to produce ever more accurate warnings of the danger "It happened as quick as lightning, but it only took seconds to create so much destruction." But the deadly landslides of 1972 triggered the establishment …

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3 years ago

Houses in Uttarakhand village sliding backwards, risk for human habitation: Experts

India TV News

Dar -- the first village of Darma valley in Dharchula sub-division of the district -- is gradually sliding down the slope as a result of the weakening land surface on which it stands making it unfit for human habitation, a geologist who surveyed the village on the orders of the district administration said. "At least 35 families out of a …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Decoded | What causes landslides? Are they linked to climate change?

India Today

Rescue and relief operations continue at Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh, where a landslide took at least 15 lives. Professor Sarada Prasad Pradhan from the Department of Earth Science at Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee explains, "Surface materials are held together on a slope due to friction and cohesion, once this is removed, it induces a slide or even an event like …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska

Wired

This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This destabilization is being driven by climate change: Tsunamis are becoming more likely in Alaska as hillsides, formerly reinforced by glaciers and solidly frozen ground, loosen their hold on once-stable slopes. Alaska has identified three similar events in the past: Tsunamis in 2015 and …

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Good old bamboo, a certain grass could save hill highways from landslides

Human interventions, excessive rain have combined effect on landslides, reveal post-disaster studies

Rain set off landslide in Wayanad, change in land use pattern made it lethal: K K Ramachandran

Their neighbors lost everything in a massive landslide. Now they fear for their homes

‘Unusually heavy’ rains caused Rolling Hills Estates landslide, city report finds

Fragile Nainital: Hillside survey planned after landslide, house collapse

Newport Beach house on problematic bluff where landslide hit is demolished

Joshimath crisis is due to landslide, not subsidence: Experts

Study on landslip-hit locations in Kerala highlights need to research rainfall dynamics

How Hong Kong protects people from dangerous landslides

Houses in Uttarakhand village sliding backwards, risk for human habitation: Experts

Decoded | What causes landslides? Are they linked to climate change?

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska