Local and regional scale landslide hazard analyses of guwahati city india

Abstract

Rainfall induced landslides constitute a major geo hydrological hazard and form a significant component of the natural disasters that affect most of the hill slopes of Guwahati region Assam India Although such rainfall triggered landslides are mostly of shallow slips involving relatively lesser volumes of soil they exhibit a recurrent temporal and spatial frequency of occurrence The catastrophic nature of such landslides in the urbanized areas cause significant damage to infrastructure and...