Life and death of slow-moving landslides

P Lacroix, AL Handwerger, G Bièvre - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
In the most destructive and catastrophic landslide events, rocks, soil and fluids can travel at
speeds approaching several tens of metres per second. However, many landslides …

[HTML][HTML] Permafrost as a first order control on long-term rock-slope deformation in (Sub-) Arctic Norway

P Hilger, RL Hermanns, J Czekirda, KS Myhra… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Assessing initiation of rock-slope deformation and paleo-slip rates of rockslides is important
to understand the impact of climate variability-in particular permafrost changes-on rockslide …

InSAR-based detection method for mapping and monitoring slow-moving landslides in remote regions with steep and mountainous terrain: An application to Nepal

DPS Bekaert, AL Handwerger, P Agram… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mapping and monitoring landslides in remote areas with steep and mountainous terrain is
logistically challenging, expensive, and time consuming. Yet, in order to mitigate hazards …

Acceleration of a large deep-seated tropical landslide due to urbanization feedbacks

A Dille, O Dewitte, AL Handwerger, N d'Oreye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The movement of large, slow-moving, deep-seated landslides is regulated principally by
changes in pore-water pressure in the slope. In urban areas, drastic reorganization of the …

Triggering and recovery of earthquake accelerated landslides in Central Italy revealed by satellite radar observations

C Song, C Yu, Z Li, S Utili, P Frattini, G Crosta… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Earthquake triggered landslides often pose a great threat to human life and property.
Emerging research has been devoted to documenting coseismic landslides failed during or …

Why the Xintan landslide was not triggered by the heaviest historical rainfall: Mechanism and review

H Chen, S Qin, L Xue, C Xu - Engineering Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy rainfall has long been recognized as a key factor in the triggering of landslides, as
large amounts of precipitation generally have strong weakening effects on anti-sliding forces …

Landslide sensitivity and response to precipitation changes in wet and dry climates

AL Handwerger, EJ Fielding… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Slow‐moving landslides are hydrologically driven. Yet, landslide sensitivity to precipitation,
and in particular, precipitation extremes, is difficult to constrain because landslides occur …

Semi-automated regional classification of the style of activity of slow rock-slope deformations using PS InSAR and SqueeSAR velocity data

C Crippa, E Valbuzzi, P Frattini, GB Crosta… - Landslides, 2021 - Springer
Large slow rock-slope deformations, including deep-seated gravitational slope deformations
and large landslides, are widespread in alpine environments. They develop over thousands …

Residual state rate effects of shear-zone soil regulating slow-to-fast transition of catastrophic landslides

X Kang, S Wang, W Wu, G Xu - Engineering Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Catastrophic landslides with basal shear zones usually involve a number of mechanisms
that are poorly understood. One mechanism issue is the transition from slow sliding to fast …

Shear rate effect on the residual strength of saturated clayey and granular soils under low-to high-rate continuous shearing

H Miao, G Wang - Engineering Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
The residual strength of sliding basal soils plays a pivotal role not only in the movement of
bedding landslides controlled by clay-rich interlayers but also in remobilized granular …