Accelerated mass movement activities due to increased rainfall in the Nainital township, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, India

Gupta, Vikram; Tandon, Ruchika Sharma; Venkateshwarlu, B.; Bhasin, Rajinder; Kaynia, Amir M.

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“…Some of the chronic landslides in the area are the Wariya landslide (Yamuna valley), Varunavat Parvat landslide and Natela landslide (Bhagirathi valley), Kaliayasaur landslide (Alaknanda valley), Byung Gad landslide (Mandakini valley), Malpa landslide and Khotila landslide (Kali valley), Surabhi Resort landslides (Mussoorie township), Balia Nala landslide and Sher ka Danda landslide (Nainital township), and there are many more including the Totaghati landslide. All these landslides have been studied in isolation by various workers to understand their causes and consequences in the region and on the environment (Sati et al 1998;Gupta and Bist 2004;Chaudhary et al 2010;Onagh et al 2012;Gupta et al 2016Gupta et al , 2017Jamir et al 2018Jamir et al , 2020Kundu and Patel 2019;Solanki et al 2019;Ram et al 2020).…”

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Regional-scale landslide susceptibility assessment for the hilly state of Uttarakhand, NW Himalaya, India

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Landslide and related mass movement activities are common and one of the most destructive natural hazards in the mountainous terrain including the Himalayas. Of the 11 administrative states in the Indian Himalayan region, the state of Uttarakhand has witnessed enhanced activities of these phenomena. It is therefore essential to understand the regional scale landslide susceptibility assessment of the state and in the present study, landslide susceptibility mapping for the entire state has been carried out using bivariate weight of evidence and information value methods which depict that around 51% of the area is located in the high and very high landslide susceptible zones, 22-23% in the moderate and *26-27% in the low and very low landslide susceptible zones, and slopes ranging between 40°and 60°, located at an elevation of 2000-4000 m, facing towards southern sides and covered with limestone, gneiss, quartzite and phyllite, have higher propensity towards development of landslides in the region.

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Regional-scale landslide susceptibility assessment for the hilly state of Uttarakhand, NW Himalaya, India

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“…monsoon season (Gupta, Tandon, Venkateshwarlu, Bhasin, & Kaynia, 2017), whereas the anthropogenic factors are manifold, including change of slope geometry mainly related to construction, mining, and hill cutting. It is worth mentioning that landslides in the Himalaya do not distribute randomly, and are constrained to wellknown landslide hot-spot zones (Nadim, Kjekstad, Peduzzi, Herold, & Jaedicke, 2006;D.…”

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Geomorphic evaluation of landslides along the Teesta river valley, Sikkim Himalaya, India

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Landslides are a common and widespread phenomena in tectonically active mountains, impacting on landscape development, and lanslides pose a serious threat to the lives and properties when these interfere with humans and their associated infrastructure. However, the spatial distribution of these landslides is controlled by various geological and geomorphological parameters, including the neotectonic activity and the climatic pattern of the area. In the present study, various geomorphic parameters such as longitudinal and topographic swath profile, valley floor width to valley height ratio, channel steepness index, and stream length gradient index, along with the rainfall pattern of the Teesta river valley, Sikkim Himalaya, were correlated with the spatial distribution of landslides in the area. It has been concluded that landslides in the Higher Himalaya, north of the Main Central Thrust behind the orographic barrier, owe their origin mainly to the higher tectonic activity, and adjacent to the Main Central Thrust in the front of the orographic barrier to both tectonic activity and the higher rainfall. The distribution of landslides in the Lesser Himalaya is dominantly controlled by lithology and is mainly triggered by the rainfall.

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High Mountain Hazards in Uttarakhand

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Accelerated mass movement activities due to increased rainfall in the Nainital township, Kumaun Lesser Himalaya, India

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Regional-scale landslide susceptibility assessment for the hilly state of Uttarakhand, NW Himalaya, India

Regional-scale landslide susceptibility assessment for the hilly state of Uttarakhand, NW Himalaya, India

Geomorphic evaluation of landslides along the Teesta river valley, Sikkim Himalaya, India

High Mountain Hazards in Uttarakhand

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