Life and death of slow-moving landslides
Citation
Lacroix, P., Handwerger, A.L., Bièvre, G. (2020). Life and death of slow-moving landslides. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1: 404-419. Link to paper
Abstract
Some landslides creep at low velocities of a few millimetres to metres per year, forced by external factors such as rainfall, snowmelt, earthquakes or anthropogenic forcings. This Review discusses the recent advances in understanding slow-moving landslides and examines circumstances where slow-moving landslides can accelerate and fail catastrophically. The article examines environmental conditions (such as geology, climate and tectonics) of slow-moving-landslide-prone regions and analyzes the various forcings that drive their motion.