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Space-Time Hazard Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslides

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The paper deals with the application of a physically-based stability model that has been adopted by the Department of National Civil Protection as a prototype early warning system for rainfall-induced landslides in Italy, using rainfall data and geospatial datasets. The main features of the model are briefly recalled and particular attention is devoted to the discussion of the input data. The slope-stability analysis has been carried out on national scale, concerning some case-histories occurred between October 2009 and March 2011, on the basis of observed rainfalls. The comparison between observed landslide localizations and model back analysed results is finally presented.

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The financial support to the present study by CIMA Foundation (Savona – Italy) and by the Department of National Civil Protection is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Civil, Environmental, Territory Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 181/A, Parma, Italy

    Lorella Montrasio, Roberto Valentino & Gian Luca Losi

  2. Department of National Civil Protection, Via Vitorchiano 2, Rome, Italy

    Angela Corina

  3. CIMA Research Foundation – International Centre on Environmental Monitoring, Via A. Magliotto 2, Savona, Italy

    Lauro Rossi & Roberto Rudari

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  1. , Geological Survey of Italy, ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmen, Vitaliano Brancati 60, Rome, 00144, Italy

    Claudio Margottini

  2. ICL - International Consortium on Landsl, Via La Pira 4, Florence, 50121, Italy

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  3. Kyoto University Uji-Campus, UNITWIN Headquarters Building, Uji, 611-0011, Kyoto, Japan

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Montrasio, L., Valentino, R., Losi, G.L., Corina, A., Rossi, L., Rudari, R. (2013). Space-Time Hazard Assessment of Rainfall-Induced Shallow Landslides. In: Margottini, C., Canuti, P., Sassa, K. (eds) Landslide Science and Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31337-0_37

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