The biggest landslide event in Brazil: preliminary analysis of Rio Grande do Sul mega disaster in May 2024
- Autor(en)
- Clódis Oliveira Andrades-Filho, Lorenzo Fossa Sampaio Mexias, Renata Pacheco Quevedo, Pâmela Boelter Herrmann, Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira, Beatriz Rosa Cargnin, Mateus Silva Reis, Kleverson Ribeiro Novakoski, Dafne Cavalheiro, Claudia Robbi Sluter, Andrea Lopes Iescheck, Laurindo Antonio Guasselli, Milton Ribeiro Junior, Nelson Luis Sambaqui Gruber, Ruy Paulo Philipp, Cassiana Roberta Lizzoni Michelin, Antonio Pedro Viero, Clovis Gonzatti, Édipo Cremon, Maria Luiza Correa da Câmara Rosa, Eduardo Guimaraes Barboza, Raul Gick Schumacher, Sergio Mauricio Molano Cárdenas, Victor Matheus Soares, Washington Peres Núñez, Renato Ribeiro Mendonça, Maurício Righi, Michelle Cardoso da Silva, Luis Antonio Bressani, Luana Daniela Silva Peres, Lucca Belle Mevel, João Igor Dorneles, José Antônio Cacciatore, Felipe Medeiros Jacques, Lauren Cunha Duarte, Felipe Carvalho Diniz, Leandro Petry, Gabriel Schwarzer, Marciano Carneiro, Bárbara Giaccom
- Abstrakt
Between April and May 2024, an unprecedented precipitation event reached Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, causing floods and landslide throughout the region. The extreme event impacted 96% of the Rio Grande do Sul municipalities, affected approximately 2.4 million people, and resulted in 182 casualties. In this news article, we report the magnitude of the extreme event, focusing on the landslide inventory preliminary results. The landslide inventory consists of a voluntary initiative, which aimed to assist the local population and public authorities.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Université de Liège, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goiás (IFG), Serviço Geológico do Brasil: Porto Alegre, RS, BR, Brazilian Army Geographic Service, Magma - Geologia e Meio Ambiente, Arroio do Meio 95940-000, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Journal
- Landslides
- ISSN
- 1612-510X
- Publikationsdatum
- 2024
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 105902 Naturgefahren
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/7e3241a2-0cae-45e5-b325-00c8f844933b