Every year, hundreds of landslides are triggered by rainfall in the city of Rize, northern
Turkey, resulting in casualties and devastating social and economic consequences.
Although these landslides have been observed every year, for a long time in Rize, there is
limited data on characteristics of these soils in the literature. Characterizing these soils is of
paramount importance for numerical modeling of the landslide mechanisms, for stabilization
works, for landslide susceptibility mapping and for establishing rainfall intensity-duration …