Week 8: Mass Wasting

 Week 8: Mass Wasting in Greece 

Mass wasting a natural disaster caused by a plethora of different reasons, making most countries susceptible to them. Mass wasting is a main contributor to Earth's evolving landscape. They especially damage the more terraneous countries, with lots of mountains, canyons, or cliffs. 

The country of Greece is on of the most seismically active places in the world. Unfortunately earthquakes are a major cause of landslides and other types of mass wasting. Other causes can be from volcanic eruption, flooding, heavy rainfall, poor drainage systems, as well as just human activity. 

This image shows the landslide susceptibility for the mainland Greece.  

Geosciences | Free Full-Text | GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping on the Peloponnese Peninsula, Greece

The Western part of Greece sees high risks of mass wasting, especially landslides due to both man-made and natural factors.  Along with the region being one of the most tectonically active in the world, previous landslide events have damaged small sections of Greece's road network in the region. The specific area follows the Glafkos Stream, through the Panachaikon mountains. 

The Greek island of Crete finds itself at risk of mass wasting because of the Islands common earthquakes and other sciesmic activity. 
Sustainability | Free Full-Text | Geoinformatic Analysis of Rainfall-Triggered Landslides in Crete (Greece) Based on Spatial Detection and Hazard Mapping

Comments

  1. Josh BMarch 16, 2023 at 11:46 PM

    Hi Jameson! It is interesting to see how directly Earthquake risk affects landslide risk! My country is quite the opposite, there is a low earthquake risk so there is also a low risk of landslides!

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  2. Ana GGMarch 17, 2023 at 2:37 PM

    This was an interesting reflection on mass wasting!- do they have mitigation measures for this hazard? Also, can you add your sources of information?

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