On 15–16 December 1999, heavy rainfall severely stroke Campania region (southern Italy), triggering numerous debris flows on the slopes of the San Martino Valle Caudina-Cervinara area. Soil slips originated within the weathered volcaniclastic mantle of soil cover overlying the carbonate skeleton of the massif. Debris slides turned into fast flowing mixtures of matrix and large blocks, downslope...

This study deals with landslide susceptibility mapping in the northern part of Lecco Province, Lombardy Region, Italy. In so doing, a valid inventory map and thirteen predisposing factors (including elevation, slope aspect, degree, plan curvature, profile distance to waterway, road, fault, soil type, land use, lithology, stream power index, topographic wetness index) form spatial database withi...

landslide also referred to as mass movement, slope failures, slope instability, and terrain instability is the mass movement, usually sudden, of soil and debris down a steep slope (Cruden, 1991). They are caused by a variety of factors such as heavy rains, earthquake ground shaking or geological forces. Different types of landslides move down slope at a wide range of speeds (Varnes, 1978). Most...

Abstract. In the past 50 years, a large variety of statistically based models and methods for landslide susceptibility mapping zonation have been proposed in literature. The methods, which are applicable to range spatial scales, use input thematic data, different model combinations, several approaches evaluate models' performance. Despite numerous applications available literature, standard app...