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Directions of the US Geological Survey Landslide Hazards Reduction Program

G. F. Wieczorek
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The US Geological Survey (USGS) Landslide Hazards Reduction Program includes studies of landslide process and prediction, landslide susceptibility and risk mapping, landslide recurrence and slope evolution, and research application and technology transfer. Studies of landslide processes have been recently conducted in Virginia, Utah, California, Alaska, and Hawaii, Landslide susceptibility maps provide a very important tool for landslide hazard reduction. The effects of engineering-geologic characteristics of rocks, seismic activity, short and long-term climatic change on landslide recurrence are under study. Detailed measurement of movement and deformation has begun on some active landslides. -from Author

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G. F. Wieczorek. 1993. Directions of the US Geological Survey Landslide Hazards Reduction Program. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70017983

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