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Landslide Hazard Mapping: GIS Based Susceptibility Assessment of Leoutikhola Watershed, Dhankuta, Nepal

Summary

This paper argues that the rainfall intensity, unscientific methods of cultivation and lack of environment friendly developmental activities in steep slope are some of the major driving factors to landslide in the Leoutikhola watershed area. Leoutikhola watershed area has been suffering from different types of natural hazards such as landslide, debris flow, gully erosion, mass wasting and flooding. Field verification and satellite imageries are the major sources for the information to analyze. Due to its fragile and very weak geological condition, geomorphic hazard is considered more common than other types of hazards which lose massive lives and property in the study area.

Category:

Research Paper


Writer:

Tika Ram Linkha, Dil Kumar Rai, Furbe Lama


Link Source:

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3126/ttp.v18i0.28008


Publisher:

Journal of Geography


Published Year:

2019