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Research article
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17 Jul 2019
Research article |
| 17 Jul 2019
| 17 Jul 2019
Global detection of rainfall-triggered landslide clusters
Institute of Applied
Geosciences (AGW), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
School of Global Policy
and Strategy (GPS), University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA
Philipp Blum
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Applied
Geosciences (AGW), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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This study aims to identify clusters of landslide events within a global database that are triggered by the same rainfall event. Results show that 14 % of all recorded landslide events are actually part of a landslide cluster consisting of at least 10 events. However, in a more regional analysis this number ranges from 30 % for the west coast of North America to 3 % in the Himalayan region. These findings provide an improved understanding for managing landslide mitigations on a larger scale.
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