Urban land use makes precipitation-triggered landslides more likely (IMAGE)

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Urban land use makes precipitation-triggered landslides more likely

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Because of human-made changes to topography and land cover, urban areas are more likely to have precipitation-triggered landslides than rural regions, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters.

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Timo Volz

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