LANDSLIDE Flashcards
It is a gradual or sudden natural earth processes which cause injury, loss of life, property damage, loss of livelihood and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental changes
GEOLOGIC HAZARD
It is a rock, dirt, or debris falling down a sloping section of land.
Wide variety of processes that results in the downward and outward movement of slope forming materials.
Falling, toppling, sliding, or flowing
LANDSLIDE
WHAT CAUSES LANDSLIDES?
Weak or sensitive materials, weathered materials, shear jointed, or fissured materials
Fire, drought, tectonic movement
Illegal logging, mining, and industrialization
It can form debris flows when they mix with additional water and sediments from their path.
It may sweep away the whole community in an instant.
RAINFALL INDUCED LANDSLIDE
UNUSUAL NOISE
(BREAKING TREES OR KNOCKING BOULDERS)
- RUMBLING SOUND IS NOTICEABLE
- RAPID RISE IN WATER LEVEL
IMPENDING SIGNS OF RAINFALL-INDUCED LANDSLIDE
It is caused by physical or chemical erosion.
NATURAL SINKHOLE
It is caused by drilling, mining, road construction, and broken or underground pipes.
MAN-MADE SINKHOLES
New cracks at the foundations of buildings and houses.
Cracks in Area
Depression at ground level
Rapid appearance of crater in the ground.
IMPENDING SIGNS OF A SINKHOLE
- What is the primary cause of sinkholes.
water
Which type of sinkhole occurs when bedrock is covered by deep layers of soil and earth then bedrock erodes resulting into a hole?
COVER COLLAPSE SINKHOLE