14/07/2021
Landslide
Natural disasters always caused fear and horror in people. The greatest horror is caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis that are unpredictable and catastrophic in their consequences. The most unpredictable are earthquakes. Landslide is a major geological hazard, which poses a serious threat to the human population, and various infrastructures such as highways, rail routes, and civil structures such as dams, buildings, and others. Landslides cause huge damage in the world and kill many people each year. Casualties are caused by rockslides, rockfalls, and debris falls. In order to know this phenomenon better, and eventually protect themselves from its destructive action, people should be aware of how landslides are formed and how they act.
The problem of landslide risk management is considered as a measure leading to landslides risk reduction. It includes landslides monitoring, mapping, landslide forecast, engineering works, slopes strengthen, insurance, and others. Strictly speaking, geological risk management includes: Hazard identification; Vulnerability evaluation; Risk analysis; Concept of acceptable risk; Risk assessment; Risk mapping; Measures for risk reduction; legislative; organizational, and administrative; economic, including insurance;
engineering and technical; modeling; monitoring; and information.
