Slope movements induced by rainfalls damaging an urban area: The Catanzaro case study (Calabria, southern Italy)

Landslides

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 801-814

  Antronico, L ^a   Borrelli, L ^a   Coscarelli, R ^a   Pasqua, A A ^a   Petrucci, O ^a   Gulla G ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerial photo interpretation; Calabria (Italy); Field investigations; Landslides; Rainfall analysis

Indexed keywords

PHOTOINTERPRETATION; RAIN; SURVEYS;

AERIAL PHOTO INTERPRETATION; CALABRIA; CUMULATIVE RAINFALL; FIELD INVESTIGATION; ITALIAN REGIONS; LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS; PARTIAL REACTIVATION; RAINFALL ANALYSIS;

LANDSLIDES;

LANDSLIDE; MASS MOVEMENT; NEIGHBORHOOD; RAINFALL; SLOPE; SURVEY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

CALABRIA; CATANZARO; ITALY;

EID: 84888845399     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-013-0431-3     Document Type: Article

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