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Establishment of ground motion prediction model that is able to accurately predict ground motion for Peninsular Malaysia is always a challenge to loca...
Samar Island, Philippines, is located on the eastern side of the central or Visayan Islands. Here the Talavera limestone, locally as much as 400 m thi...
A gigantic rapid landslide claiming over 1,000 fatalities was triggered by rainfalls and a small nearby earthquake in the Leyte Island, Philippines in...
The common features in establish seismic design criteria for buildings, probabilistic seismic hazard analysis requires estimation of ground motion suc...
The Holocene beach-ridge plain of Phra Thong Island (Ko Phra Thong, SW Thailand) provides sedimentary evidence of several palaeotsunamis, in addition ...
For landslide susceptibility mapping, this study applied, verified and compared the Bayesian probability model, the weights-of-evidence to Panaon Isla...
Given the increased numbers of disasters and humanitarian crises which occur in the face of diminishing global resources, the contemporary disaster ma...
The effect of climate change on the frequency and intensity of droughts across the contiguous United States over the next century is assessed by apply...
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and compare the results of applying the statistical index and the logistic regression methods for estimating ...
This paper deals with landslide hazards and risk analysis of Penang Island, Malaysia using Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing data...

Performance of Structures in the Mw 6.1 Mae Lao Earthquake in Thailand on May 5, 2014 and Implications for Future Construction

Lukkunaprasit, P.A. RuangrassameeT. BoonyateeC. ChintanapakdeeK. JankaewN. ThanasisathitT. Chandragsu
An Mw 6.1 earthquake struck northern Thailand on the 5th of May 2014. The epicenter was located near Mae Lao district in Chiang Rai province. The eart...
This paper describes the development and real-world deployment of an alternative instrumentation for monitoring slope deformation and water level inte...
This study represents a hybrid intelligence approach based on the differential evolution optimization and Least-Squares Support Vector Machines for sh...
An extraordinarily large-scale landslide with a volume of about 200 million m3, a width of about 1,600 m, and a height of about 750 m occurred on 20...

Mapping Landslide Risk of the World

Wentao YangLingling ShenPeijun Shi
Landslides are global hazards that cause huge economic and human losses around the world every year. The study of landslide at global scale is critica...
Pockmarks and related subsurface features are mapped and interpreted inoffshore Sarawak, South China Sea. Data was collected using sidescan sonar,sub-...
This article reviews the process and the background of the Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 proposed by the International Consortium on Landslides, fro...

Lowland tropical peatlands of Southeast Asia

Page, S.E.Rieley, J.O.Wüst, R.
Peatlands are terrestrial wetland ecosystems in which the production of organic matter exceeds its decomposition and a net accumulation results. Sever...
The Menoreh Mountains in Yogyakarta are severely affected by landslides. Due to the high population densities, mass movements are generally damaging a...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...