Catastrophic landslides cause billions of dollars in damages and claim thousands of lives
annually, whereas slow-moving landslides with negligible inertia dominate sediment …

Like faults, landslides can slip slowly for decades or accelerate catastrophically. However,
whereas experimentally derived friction laws provide mechanistically based explanations for …

One of the ultimate goals in landslide hazard assessment is to predict maximum landslide
extension and velocity. Despite much work, the physical processes governing energy …

The evolution of the shear resistance at the base of a coherent landslide body can effectively
control its dynamic behavior. High‐velocity rotary shear experiments have allowed scientists …

We model landslide initiation as slip surface growth driven by locally elevated pore
pressure, with particular reference to submarine slides. Assuming an elastic medium and …

Largely unknown mechanisms restrain motion of clay‐rich, slow‐moving landslides that are
widespread worldwide and rarely accelerate catastrophically. We studied a clayey, slow …

We analyze the initiation and enlargement of the rupture surface of translational landslides
as a fracture phenomenon using a two-dimensional boundary-element method. Both …

In the most destructive and catastrophic landslide events, rocks, soil and fluids can travel at
speeds approaching several tens of metres per second. However, many landslides …

Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found to
display a finite time singularity of the velocity v∼ 1/(tc− t)[Voight, 1988a, 1988b]. Here we …

The cause of the apparent small friction exhibited by long runout landslides has long been
speculated upon. In an attempt to provide some insight into the matter, this paper describes …