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Potential LANDSLIDE Areas

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See TEXT showing current locations of possible landslides : 24 , 72 , 168 Hours and a TOTAL LIST OF ALL DATES AND HOURS.

Click on the following links to see the Global Landslide Inventory described in Kirschbaum et al. (2009a) and used in Kirschbaum et al. (2009b). Please read the Landslide Inventory Documentation and direct any inquiries, landslide entry information, suggestions and/or comments to landslide.inventory@gmail.com.

link to time series graphs near potential landslide areas
Rainfall Time Series Graphs Near Potential Landslides

Click yellow circles on maps below to see regional areas with potential landslides.

Area with high landslide potential shown in Red

Click on the kml file below to show locations of NEAR REALTIME LANDSLIDE POTENTIAL in GOOGLE EARTH

Updated December 30, 2008 (Note: you must have Google Earth installed in order to be able to load this KML files.) http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_rain/Events/trmm_google_landslide.kml

Click here to see proximity of recent USGS reported earth quakes to potential landslide areas.

Relevant Publications links (pdfs):

  • Yang Hong, Robert Adler, and George Huffman Evaluation of the potential of NASA multi-satellite precipitation analysis in global landslide hazard assessment. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 33, L22402, doi:10.1029/2006GL028010, 2006 Received 13 September 2006; revised 18 October 2006; accepted 24 October 2006; published 28 November 2006.

  • Yang Hong, Robert Adler and George Huffman Use of satellite remote sensing data in the mapping of global landslide susceptibility Journal Of Natural Hazards DOI 10.1007/s11069-006-9104-z Received: 28 August 2006 / Accepted: 7 Decembember 2006 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 200
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