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Lifelines sustain significant service interruption in medium to large magnitude earthquakes from landslides. There were many examples of long duration service interruptions and recovery to normalcy due to landslide disasters other than earthquake induced, for example heavy rainstorm. This paper intended to bring a focus on landslide impact to lifelines. The attempt is to reinforce the need to encourage more research in order to develop tools to protect lifelines from losses—direct and indirect losses. The cases discussed in this paper were significant earthquake events and rainstorms from 2007 to 2018. The lifelines to be discussed in this paper are telecommunication and transportation. The inherent spatial characteristics of these networks render many segments exposing to landslides, rock falls and mud flows. The paper will not discuss methods of prevention but will identify lesson learned from good geotech engineering.
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The author is grateful to Professor Konagai who continuously encourages and supports my quest for more resilient lifelines to reduce hardship experienced by earthquake impacted communities. During the process of our interface in the past decade, I learned a lot on landslide, lateral spread and other geotech topics. Professor Yue (the University of Hong Kong) provided me with valuable insights in landslide studies and failures.
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Tang, A.K. (2021). Lessons Learned—Landslide Induced Lifelines Disasters from Past Earthquakess. In: Arbanas, Ž., Bobrowsky, P.T., Konagai, K., Sassa, K., Takara, K. (eds) Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk. WLF 2020. ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60713-5_3
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