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Geologic Hazards
Video: Massive Earthworks to Stabilize US 89 Landslide
By April of 2015, the contractor for Arizona DOT’s US 89 Landslide Stabilization project will have move over 1 million cubic yards of material to build a massive stabilizing berm. They are using CAT 773 […]
Geologic Hazards
Taiwan Freeway No. 3 landslide probe finds likely causes
A panel of experts in civil engineering and geotechnical engineering has completed their investigation into the failure of the slope above Freeway No. 3 in Taiwan last April that killed 4 people. Their forensic geotechnical […]
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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!