Utah Poised to Adopt Geologic Hazard Ordinances
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Earthquake Probability Maps – USGS
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Utah Releases Landslide Susceptibility Map
The Utah Geologic Survey has released a "Landslide Susceptibility Map of Utah". They apparently relied quite heavily on GIS based thresholding of existing slope angles but only after they had statistically analyzed failure angles for particular geologic units. So it sounds like they throw the known landslides, the geologic map of Utah and a DEM into the GIS a blend it all up. Perhaps a slight oversimplification!
Geologic Hazards
Origins of the Hong Kong Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO)
The Hong Kong Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) runs perhaps the best-known landslide safety and slope monitoring programs in the world. The BBC recently profiled this organization and their work in a recent article that should […]