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Fall AGU Session: The 17 February 2006 Philippine Landslide
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From: Alfredo Mahar Lagmay <mlagmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dear Colleagues,
We encourage you to submit abstracts to the following session:
T39 : The 17 February 2006 Philippine Landslide
for this Fall Meeting of AGU in San Francisco. Session description is:
On 17 February 2006, a debris avalanche devastated Barangay Guinsaugon,
Southern Leyte, Philippines. After a series of heavy rainfall, the
landslide occurred along the steep fault scarp of the Philippine Fault
Zone, a large
and active tectonic structure that traverses the entire length of
the Philippines. Barangay Guinsaugon is located at the foot of the scarp
and was directly along the path of the downward moving mass of volcanic
rocks. In the aftermath, more than 1,000 lives were lost with 654
families displaced. This session welcomes contributions on the
Guinsaugon
landslide to help shed light on the actual cause of the catastrophe.
Contributions on similar events and research that provide information
and introduce new techniques on the early detection of large landslide
events are also welcome. The session outcome, which has emphasis on
lessons learned from the Guinsaugon, Leyte disaster, is aimed towards
hazards preparedness and mitigation of future landslides in the
Philippines and elsewhere in the world.
Hiroshi Suwa,
Disaster Prevention Research Institute
Kyoto University
suwa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Alfredo Mahar Lagmay
National Institute of Geological Sciences
University of the Philippines
mlagmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, alagmay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Stephen Evans
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Waterloo
sgevans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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