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Landslide hazard zonation mapping on meso-scale in SH-37 ghat section, Nadugani, Gudalur, the Nilgiris, India

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Landslide is the most common natural disaster in mountainous regions. It causes damages to life and properties. The study area, Calicut–Nilampur–Gudalurghat section (SH37) falls under the Survey of India toposheet 58A-7/NE (1:25,000). The present study was carried out with landslide hazard zonation mapping on meso-scale. This paper explains how meso-zonation of landslide hazards (facet-wise) was made from investigations as per the norms given in Bureau of Indian Standard IS 14496:1998. Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) was utilized for the preparation of thematic maps on 1:10,000 scale. The present study evaluates more detailed related factors of inherent causative factors (lithology, structure, slope gradient, relative relief, land use/land cover, and hydrogeology) involved in landslides. This method also incorporates effects of external causative factors like seismicity and rainfall as corrected rating. In the study area, 10 different facets have been identified. This area falling in facets 3, 4, 6, 7, and 10 come under high hazardous zone, the slopes falling in the facets 1 and 5 fall in the moderate hazardous zone, facet 2 in low hazard zone and other facets 8 and 9 show very high hazardous zone. Details of this work are presented in this paper. The landslide inventory points were collected with the help GPS in this ghat section. The inventory percentage 3.3% comes in low hazard zone, 18% present in moderate hazard zone, 57.4% in high hazard zone, and 21.3% under very high hazard zone.

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The authors thank Prof. R. Sethuraman, Vice-Chancellor of SASTRA University, Thanjavur for having given us facilities to carry out this work, Dr. Bhoop Singh, Head, NRDMS division, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi for the financial support for research project entitled “Geo-environmental factors Assessment and Slope Stability Analysis on 6.5 km Ghats section from 103/6 to 109/8 km stone on SH 37, Nadugani, Gudalur, the Nilgiris” and encouragement provided to undertake this work. The authors thank anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions to improve the quality of the research article.

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Mani, S., Saranaathan, S.E. Landslide hazard zonation mapping on meso-scale in SH-37 ghat section, Nadugani, Gudalur, the Nilgiris, India. Arab J Geosci 10, 161 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-017-2932-1

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