Simple rules to minimise exposure to coseismic landslide hazard

Milledge, David G.; Densmore, Alexander L.; Bellugi, Dino; Rosser, Nick J.; Watt, Jack; Li, Gen; Oven, Katie J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-837-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-837-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-837-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

Research article

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17 Apr 2019

Research article |

| 17 Apr 2019

Simple rules to minimise exposure to coseismic landslide hazard

David G. Milledge, Alexander L. Densmore, Dino Bellugi, Nick J. Rosser, Jack Watt, Gen Li, and Katie J. Oven

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Short comment', Gianvito Scaringi, 23 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Response to comment by Dr Scaringi', Dave Milledge, 08 Jan 2019
  - SC2: 'Reply', Gianvito Scaringi, 08 Jan 2019
    - AC2: 'Final response to comment from Dr Scaringi', Dave Milledge, 20 Feb 2019
RC1: 'Review of "Simple rules to minimize exposure to coseismic landslide hazard" by Milledge et al.', Odin Marc, 02 Dec 2018
- SC3: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Dave Milledge, 08 Jan 2019
  - AC3: 'Final response to Reviewer 1 (Dr Marc)', Dave Milledge, 20 Feb 2019
RC2: 'Referee Comments on Simple rules to minimize exposure to coseismic landslide hazard', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Dec 2018
- SC4: 'Response to Anonymous referee 2', Dave Milledge, 08 Jan 2019
  - AC4: 'Final response to Reviewer 2', Dave Milledge, 20 Feb 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (24 Feb 2019) by Thom Bogaard

AR by Dave Milledge on behalf of the Authors (28 Feb 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Mar 2019) by Thom Bogaard

AR by Dave Milledge on behalf of the Authors (19 Mar 2019)

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Mitigating landslide risk requires information on landslide hazards on a suitable scale to inform decisions. We develop simple rules to identify landslide hazards and the probability of being hit by a landslide, then test their performance using six existing landslide inventories from recent earthquakes. We find that the best rules are "minimize your maximum look angle to the skyline" and "avoid steep (> 10˚) channels with many steep (> 40˚) areas that are upslope".