This contribution considers the predictions of mass movements that have yet to take place and the support provided by spatial databases for the prediction. Conventional hazard maps tend to compile the neighbourhoods and dynamic types of the known past landslides, assuming that they satisfactorily represent the locations of future landslides. The latter, however, may also occur elsewhere. Spatia...

Landslide in alpine regions often causes heavy losses of both human lives and properties, most of the landslides are induced by heavy rainfall. In this paper, we put forward an early warning system of rain-induced landslide. From 2002, we carried on the demonstrative work of landslide monitoring and early warning in Yaan, Sichuan Province, China, and constructed the first county-scale landslide...

Road and rail networks are essential components of national infrastructures, underpinning the economy, and facilitating the mobility of goods and the human workforce. Earthwork slopes such as cuttings and embankments are primary components, and their reliability is of fundamental importance. However, instability and failure can occur, through processes such as landslides. Monitoring the conditi...

Landslides may pose perceptible tsunami hazards to areas commonly regarded as immune. A large number of historic and prehistoric slope failures have been reported covering a broad range of landslide volumes and resulting tsunamis. Landslide generated tsunamis were investigated in a two-dimensional physical laboratory model based on the generalized Froude similarity. The slide impact characteris...

Probabilistic and soft computing methods are increasingly adopted in various fields of engineering geology. In the past decades, extensive original and innovative studies of various engineering geology problems have been conducted using probabilistic and soft computing methods, and substantial new theories, methods, insights, experiences, and data have been attained. This special issue is aimed...

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