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The identification of the landslide preparation and development mechanisms is the key to the sustainable development of landslide and landslide-prone urban and mining areas. The understanding of the landslide preparation mechanism is necessary for landslide hazard and risk assessments and designing proper protection measures and monitoring. A new equation for calculation of a slip surface depth (of a landslide basis) was obtained, using slope morphological and soil strength parameters. A new elaborated approach fo...

There are 15 sites with large deep landslides on Moscow territory. Recently, several of them have been activated, in some cases directly related to human activities. Deep landslides represent the major hazard to urban infrastructure. They have a complex mechanism of development, have a huge mass, and cause big problems in implementation of protection measures. The regularities of the mechanism of deep block landslides are considered in the article. Various points of view on the mechanism of development of deep blo...

By the example of the new highway project in Moscow, the paper scrutinizes in detail the evaluation procedure of the differential and integral economic risk caused by geological hazards. Based on the analysis of engineering geological conditions at the construction site as well as the projected design for highway and bridges, the hazard of landslides, karst and suffusion processes and waterlogging was assessed. It is proved that for any scenario of landslide process (either deep or shallow landslides), the risk of...