Leyte Landslide

LCI : PHL169151720
Main Information
Landslide Name : Leyte Landslide
Latitude : 10:20:0 N
Longitude : 125:5:50 E
Location
City / District : Guinsaugon
Province : Leyte
Country : Philippines
Reporter
Reporter 1 : Pham Tien
Reporter 2 : Kyoji Sassa
Landslide Type
Material : Complex
Movement : Slide
Velocity (mm/sec) : Very Rapid
Depth (m) : Very Deep
Slope (degree) : Moderate
Volume (m³) : Very Large
Date of Occurence
Date of Occurence : Feb 17, 2006
Other Information
Land Use Source area : Forest
Run-out/deposition area : River
Other Activity : -
Triggering Factor : -
Death(s) & Missing : -
Houses and other structural damage : -
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Google earth kmz file : -
Plan of landslide : -
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Testing graph : -
Monitoring graph : Paper1467344385.pdf
Video of moving landslides including 3D simulation : -
Description :

At 10:30 on February 17, 2006, a massive rock slide-debris avalanche was triggered by combined earthquakes-rainfalls impacts in the Southern Leyte Province, Philippine. The landslide with its volume about 20 million cubic meters occurred after 10-day period of heavy rainfalls and a minor earthquake (M 2.6). The rapid and long travelling movement mass buried Guinsaugon village in the town of Saint Bernard. As a result, the catastrophic disaster caused widespread damages to socio-economic infrastructures and claimed 1,126 people. This is the worst disaster hit Guinsaugon community. The collapsed slope has geologic features of weathered volcano-clastic rocks. The landslide mass moved from the slope and deposited on the flat area with a length about 4 km. Source: Kyoji Sassa, Osamu Nagai, Renato Solidum, Yoichi Yamazaki, Hidemasa Ohta (2010) “An integrated model simulating the initiation and motion of earthquake and rain induced rapid landslides and its application to the 2006 Leyte landslide”, Landslides Vol.7, pp:219-236.