Slow-moving landslides a growing, but ignored, threat to mountain communities

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Sep 17, 2024, 4:23 pm118 pts
As urban centers in mountainous regions grow, more people are driven to build on steeper slopes prone to slow-moving landslides, a new study finds. Slow-moving landslides are frequently excluded from estimates of landslide risk, but they could threaten hundreds of thousands of people globally, the researchers…

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