Sectors of the Campania region (southern Italy), where pyroclastic airfall deposits cover carbonate slopes, have frequently experienced debris avalanches and flows. These landslides are triggered by heavy rainfall in last century caused severe destruction hundreds deaths. Their occurrence is controlled interaction several factors, both natural human induced. The initial failure linked with pres...

Mass movements in Brazil are common phenomena, especially during strong rainfall events that occur frequently in the summer season. These phenomena cause losses of lives and serious damage to roads, bridges, and properties. Moreover, the illegal occupation by slums on the slopes around the cities intensifies the effect of the mass movement. This study aimed to develop a methodology that combine...

Debris flows are among the most dangerous and destructive natural hazards that affect human life, buildings, and infrastructures. Starting from the ’70s, significant scientific and engineering advances in the understanding of the processes have been achieved [4, 7]. Yet, human expertise is still fundamental for hazard identification, as many aspects of the whole process are poorly understood; a...

Debris flows represent a major threat to infrastructure in many regions of the Alps. Since systematic acquisition of data on debris-flow events in Switzerland only started after the events of 1987, there is a lack of historical knowledge on earlier debris-flow events for most torrents. It is therefore the aim of this study to reconstruct the debrisflow activity for the Reuse de Saleinaz and the...

Dendrogeomorphology was used to investigate past events on a cone affected by both debris flows and snow avalanches. We report on results of 520 cores from 251 injured Larix decidua Mill. and Picea abies (L.) Karst. trees sampled on the Birchbach cone (Swiss Alps). Detailed analysis of tree-ring sequences allowed dating of 561 growth disturbances in individual trees for a 252 yr period, extendi...

*Correspondence: Davide Tiranti, Hydrology and Natural Hazards, Department of Forecasting Systems, Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Piemonte, Via Pio VII n. 9, 10135 Turin, Italy e-mail: davide.tiranti@ arpa.piemonte.it A method to predict the most probable flow rheology in Alpine debris flows is presented. The methods classifies outcropping rock masses in catchments on the basis...

A model able to describe all the processes involved in a debris flow can be very complex owing to the sudden changing of the material that turns from solid into liquid state. The two phases of the phenomenon are analysed separately referring to soil mechanics procedures with regard to the trigger phase, and to an equivalent fluid for the postfailure phase. The present paper is devoted to show t...

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Introduction. The Martian mid-latitudes are regions of high scientific interest given recent descriptions of mantling deposits and glacial features believed to be relicts of recent ice ages on Mars [1-4]. Geomorphic indicators of ground ice have long been proposed to be concentrated in mid-latitude zones based on analyses of such features as lobate debris aprons, lineated valley fill, and conce...