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Landslide susceptibility zoning through physically-based limit equilibrium method modelling

The work introduces an innovative physically based framework for large-scale landslide susceptibility assessment, combining limit equilibrium analysis with spatialisation strategies and statistical classification techniques. The methodology, applied to a case...

Large-scale observation of reduced soil permeability in areas affected by extreme wildfires

A team of female and male researchers from the Institute for Research on Hydrogeological Protection (Cnr-Irpi) analyzed the effects of an extreme wildfire on soils and low vegetation using multitemporal...

The exceptional ice-rock avalanche of Blatten in Valais (CH)

On 28 May 2025, at15:24 (CEST), the frontal part of the Birch Glacier in Valais (CH), estimated at around 3 million m3, collapsed, dragging with it over 6 million m3...

Which characteristics should optical satellite images have to detect and map landslides? It depends …

Landslides leave discernible signs on the land surface, most of which can be captured in remote sensing images. On the images the signs appear as modification of the photographic characteristics...

Effects of climate change on landslides

Worldwide, landslides pose a serious threat to the population, causing fatalities, widespread damages, and significant economic losses. Different phenomena influence the stability of slopes and can cause landslides, among which...

What’s underneath?

When soil behaviour is studied, whether landslide soils are concern, levee materials or foundations, the problem regarding how much and how reliable information about the soil properties we have available...

Damaging geo-hydrological events in Calabria from 1990 to 1999

We published a book entitled “Eventi alluvionali in Calabria nel periodo 1990-1999” (Alluvial events in Calabria from 1990 to 1999) Link to the Book»  The volume is the result of...

Historical landslides and floods in Calabria

Landslides and floods tend to hit places that by their nature and geographic location are more likely than others to be damaged. Knowing the location of these places, and how...

How much Mar Piccolo peculiarities are due to groundwater outflow

The Mar Piccolo basin is an internal sea basin located along the Ionian coast (Southern Italy), and it is surrounded primarily by fractured carbonate karstic environment. In primarily karstic environments,...

How we map landslides

A landslide is the movement of a mass of rock, debris or earth along a slope under the influence of gravity. Landslides pose serious threats in many areas of the...

Chronological database of sinkholes in Italy

Sinkholes occurrence is related to the presence of an underground cavity, from which instability starts and propagate upwards until causing the collapse of the surface soil layer. The cavity may...

Debris-flow monitoring in the Alps

Not all that flows in creeks is water. Debris flows i.e., surges in which solid particles move together with little water, may occur in steep mountain streams, mainly as a...

Landslides in the Solar System

On Earth, landslides are hazardous phenomena often associated with economic damage and loss of human lives. The most common natural triggers of terrestrial landslides are intense or prolonged rainfall, earthquakes,...

Kinematics of slow-moving active landslides

We experiment the application of 3D numerical modelling techniques for the analysis of the kinematics of slow-moving active landslides. The activity assesses the hazards posed by slow-moving landslides, determines the...

Forecasting rainfall-induced landslides

We developed GASAKe, Genetic Algorithm-based Self-Adaptive Kernel, a new model to predict the time of occurrence of rainfall induced landslides. GASAKe predicts the time of occurrence of single landslides or...