Landslide incidence in the North of Portugal: Analysis of a historical landslide database based on press releases and technical reports

Geomorphology

Volumn 214, Issue , 2014, Pages 514-525

  Pereira, Susana ^a   Zêzere, José Luís ^a   Quaresma, Ivânia Daniela ^a   Bateira, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Database reliability; Historical inventory; Landslide damage; Landslides; North of Portugal

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; HISTORICAL RECORD; INVENTORY; LANDSLIDE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 84898812419     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.02.032     Document Type: Article

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