When catastrophic earthquakes happen and affect cities and settlements, immediate and efficient actions are required which ensure the minimization of the damage and loss of human lives. Responding local and national authorities should be provided in advance with information and maps where the highest damages due to unfavourable, local site conditions and earthquake related secondary effects suc...

In this study using the Idrisi software system, a methodology for jointly analyzing and interpreting multi-spectral images and DEMs for extracting structural-geology features is given. In analyzing and interpreting multi-spectral images for geological features, certain criteria are employed to acquire information about the geological structures of the land, such as topographic, geomorphologic, ...

Cliff recession poses a significant threat to the built environment, transportation infrastructure and land use. In this paper, novel computational framework called Nodal-integration based Particle Finite Element Method (N-PFEM) is developed for modelling cliff resulting from weathering-induced landslides. The N-PFEM combines nodal-integration technique with PFEM in second-order cone programmin...

The most crucial but difficult task in the analysis of the risk due to landslide hazard is the estimation of the conditional probability of the occurrence of future landslides in a study area within a specific time period given the presence of spatial and geomorphologic features. This contribution explores a modeling procedure for estimating that conditional probability. The procedure proposed ...