Tag Archives: landslide

Book Review: Vancouver, City on the Edge

Posted on 16 January 2011 by Mika

I have given away more copies of Vancouver, City on the Edge: living with a dynamic geological landscape by John Clague and Bob Turner than I can easily count. I do this because it’s a well-written book accessible to anyone … Continue reading →

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Predicting Landslides

Posted on 14 January 2011 by Mika

This post continues on The Trouble With Landslides by investigating in more detail why predicting how landslides will behave is challenging. Small landslides are fairly easy to predict: rockfalls essentially follow trajectories that can be predicted with relatively straightforward physics, … Continue reading →

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The Trouble with Landslides

Posted on 5 January 2011 by Mika

Landslides are among the least sexy disasters. Mud and rocks are less photogenic than lava, a single event usually impacts fewer people than an earthquake, hurricane, or tsunami, and anyone who lives in big, flat places will probably never encounter … Continue reading →

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Hazard Mitigation

Posted on 1 October 2010 by Mika

The first stage of hazard management is to identify the hazards. When a hazard is identified, models are used to establish the likely extent, intensity, and frequency of events to create a hazard map. The hazard map is used in … Continue reading →

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Disaster History of British Columbia

Posted on 1 September 2010 by Mika

Earthquakes The active subduction zone along the west coast of British Columbia is responsible for most of the ≈1,450 earthquakes each year in Canada, and most of the highest-magnitude events. In the 19th and 20th centuries, western Canada experienced eleven … Continue reading →

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F.A.Q. Landslide Runout Analysis

Posted on 29 April 2009 by Mika

Although I’ve found a surprising number of landslide-bloggers (my favourite is Dave’s), google searches on the DAN-W and DAN3D software packages seem to drop people here. I’m fairly regularly getting comments asking how to go about modeling particular landslides, or … Continue reading →

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That’s not a flowslide, it’s a sad red troll!

Posted on 23 September 2008 by Mika

There’s a problem with landslides. Okay, there are many problems with landslides, and I’m sure many would count “annual odds of death by landslide are one in a million” as a significant problem, but that’s not the one I’m tackling … Continue reading →

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