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Landslides

Landslides are a geological event where large portions of ground break loose and slide down a slope. they can cause large amounts of damage, and are generally quite dangerous.

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What effects do earthquakes tsunamis and landslides have on the places they hit?

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Earthquakes can cause widespread damage, including infrastructure collapse, destruction of buildings, and loss of lives. Tsunamis, often triggered by earthquakes under the ocean, can flood coastal areas causing significant destruction and loss of lives. Landslides, triggered by seismic activity or heavy rainfall, can lead to the displacement of soil and rocks, resulting in property damage and the disruption of transportation networks. All these natural disasters have devastating impacts on the places they hit, including economic losses and long-term recovery and rebuilding challenges.

Can blizzards make a landslide?

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Blizzards by themselves usually do not directly cause landslides. However, heavy snowfall can increase the chances of a landslide if it accumulates on slopes and adds weight to unstable areas. Additionally, blizzards can create conditions of saturation and waterlogging, which can weaken the soil and potentially trigger landslides.

Is a landslide a good thing?

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A landslide is generally not considered a good thing. It can be destructive and pose a significant risk to human lives and infrastructure. However, landslides do play a role in shaping the landscape and natural processes, so they can have some positive ecological effects in certain contexts.

What are the structural and non structural mitigation measures for landslides?

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Structural mitigation measures for landslides include constructing retaining walls, installing rock bolts or soil nails, building terraces or benches to stabilize slopes, and implementing drainage systems to control water flow. Non-structural mitigation measures include land use planning to avoid building in high-risk areas, monitoring and early warning systems to detect landslide triggers, vegetation planting to improve slope stability, and education and awareness programs to inform communities about landslide risks and safety measures.

How do you write an acrostic poem for the word o?

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How do landslides affect human?

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Because Lamborghini murchalado's push them down.

What is landslide by the Dixie chicks about?

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Landslide isn't by the Dixie Chicks. Stevie Nicks wrote it. :rolleyes:

How landslides volcanic eruptions and cosmic collisions cause tsunamis relating with the theory of plate tectonics?

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A tsunami can be generated by any disturbance that displaces a large water mass from its equilibrium position. In the case of earthquake-generated tsunamis, the water column is disturbed by the uplift or subsidence of the sea floor. Submarine landslides, which often accompany large earthquakes, as well as collapses of volcanic edifices, can also disturb the overlying water column as sediment and rock slump downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Similarly, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can create an impulsive force that uplifts the water column and generates a tsunami. Conversely, supermarine landslides and cosmic-body impacts disturb the water from above, as momentum from falling debris is transferred to the water into which the debris falls.

What could be done to prevent mudslides or landslides?

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Landslides or slips in urban areas, almost always have a source of water as their cause. Broken water or sewage mains are often to blame.

They occur where the ground has been inadequately consolidated, as in a subdivision of land; or where the land is steeper than its natural rest angle.

Rainfall in storm conditions will often saturate the soil structure, exacerbating the problem.

What can start a landslide?

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loud or high pitched noises

What is the relationship between earthquakes and landslides?

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They're the four types of erosion.

What damage does landslides cause?

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The amount of damage caused by a landslide depends entirely on where the slide occurs. A slide in a remote part of a forest may produce no damage, while one in an urban or suburban environment can cause damage in the millions of dollars.

What process is involved in landslides?

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Earthquakes are caused by the build up or accumulation of pressure (more correctly termed stress). This accumulation of stress causes the rocks that make up the crust to deform elastically

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Does Neptune have landslides?

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Volcanic eruptions can produce loose ash deposits, heavy rain, and debris flows. The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 triggered massive landslides, including the largest landslide in the world, which moved 2.8 cubic kilometers of earth material.

How was formed the landslide?

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rain affects the rocks which cracks the rocks, on a high place it'll fall off when loosely cracked. It'll affect more rocks when it crashes another rock.

Landslide election winner in 1945?

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Labour. They were the only party the country trusted to introduce the Welfare State, so they won a landslide victory.

How are a landslide and a avalance different?

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A landslide involves the movement of large volumes of unstable earth down an incline (e.g. a hill or mountainside). It can be caused by a number of phenomena, including seismic activity (i.e. earthquakes), erosion, prolonged drought, rainfall (typically resulting in a specific subset of landslide called the mudslide), poor soil management, or other factors.

By contrast, an avalanche is the movement of large volumes of snow. It can be caused by vibrations from seismic activity or, in extreme situations, loud sounds as well as by any disruption to the snow (e.g. removing a portion of the snow with a snow plow).

Is a landslide chemical or physical?

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Landslide is a physical phenomenon (geological).

What does landslide mean?

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During a landslide, any loose soil that is on a steep slope, will be moved due to the shaking. As there are usually villages and towns etc. at the bottom, the soil and maybe even rocks will hit the town and cause damage such as buildings being brought down and harm to the people.

What are the consequences of landslide?

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landslides can create permanently unstable sites that cannot be repaired or developed, and as a result, can cause severe economic and socialconsequences for families and communities. Human activities disturb large volumes of earth materials during the construction of buildings, roads and other infrastructure, and thus have been a major factor in increases in damage due to slope failures. Population migration pressure, which includes movement into hazardous areas, may also increase the vulnerability to social and economic consequences.

This session presents aspects of these impacts and will include:

* Case histories of landslide-related socioeconomic impacts, both direct and indirect, on populations.

* The effects of landslide mitigation measures, such as land use regulation, enforcement, construction incentives, and the evacuation and relocation of affected populations.

* A forum for the presentation of strategies for forecasting and measuring economic losses to the built and natural environments such as, inventory acquisition, disaster modelling, cost/benefit analyses and disaster scenarios.

* The multi-hazard, cumulative socio-economic affects of associated hazards that may accompany landslides such as flood, earthquakes, glacial retreat, volcano edifice collapses and eruptions, and the potential multiplier effect of climate change on such.

What is the difference between landslides and creep?

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Generally the speed at which the objects travel and the conclusion of the movement. A creep is an almost unnoticed, slow or gradual approach. It allows for the movement to be contained if necessary. A landslide can be a sudden falling of rock or any other detritus on or from a steep slope and is a dangerous occurrence. It can overwhelm whatever lies in its path.

Can an earthquake cause a landslide?

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No. Landslides and earthquakes are two different things. A land slide is when a large mass of land gives away and slides down, and an earthquake is caused when a fault occurs, a break in the rock. Or stress built up at plate tectonics (it depends of the type of faults what occured). They are two completely unrelated things and will not affect each other.

How does landslide change the land?

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It is part of the erosion of hills in particular circumstances.

How many people were killed and how many get injured in thredbo landslide?

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Two lodges were damaged. The Carinya Ski Lodge onto the Bimbadeen Ski Resort, destroying both buildings and killing 18.