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Monday, November 24, 2014

ScienceDaily: Engineering and Construction News

ScienceDaily: Engineering and Construction News


Landslide risks in Pacific Northwest US high: New technology may speed up, build awareness of landslide risks

Posted: 19 Nov 2014 12:17 PM PST

Engineers have created a new way to use lidar technology to identify and classify landslides on a landscape scale, which may revolutionize the understanding of landslides in the US and reveal them to be far more common and hazardous than often understood. Some areas of the Pacific Northwest may have had 10-100 times more landslides than were previously known of.

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