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Morphometric Landslide Susceptibility Results of the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada Derived from Elevation Data

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2024

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Woodard, J.B., Mirus, B.B., 2025, Morphometric Landslide Susceptibility Results of the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada Derived from Elevation Data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13AXWAA.

Summary

Landslide susceptibility models show the potential of landslide occurrence at a location. These models are pivotal for reducing losses associated with landslides (Godt and others, 2022). In this data release, we include susceptibility results from the associated manuscript by Woodard and Mirus (2025). This manuscript shows how a morphometric model can create consistent and effective susceptibility models over large regions (> 100 km2) by analyzing the terrain’s topography. The model assumes that areas with high relative slope and hillslope area in comparison to the rest of the terrain are more susceptible to landsliding. As the model’s only input is elevation data, it mitigates the data biases common in the data-driven statistical [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Jacob B Woodard
Process Contact :
Jacob B Woodard, Landslide Hazards Program
Originator :
Jacob B Woodard, Benjamin B Mirus
Metadata Contact :
Jacob B Woodard
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
SDC Data Owner :
Geologic Hazards Science Center

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Logistic_1709_All.zip
“Logistic Regression (All)”
83.38 MB application/zip
Morph_Uniform_1709.zip
“Morph Uniform Wts 1709”
71.22 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1701.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1701”
152.25 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1702.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1702”
152.52 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1703.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1703”
23.38 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1704.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1704”
72.53 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1705.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1705”
92.01 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1706.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1706”
106.18 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1707.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1707”
103.35 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1708.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1708”
48.04 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1709.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1709”
72.19 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1710.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1710”
201.22 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1711.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1711”
87.55 MB application/zip
Morph_Area_1712.zip
“Morph Area Wts 1712”
32.27 MB application/zip
Field_Descriptors.txt
“Field Descriptors”
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Logistic_1709_1.zip
“Logistic Regression (1:1)”
83.72 MB application/zip

Purpose

Results of a morphometric landslide susceptibility model using only elevation data as inputs are shared for portions of the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada.

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This work is marked with Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P13AXWAA
USGS_ScienceCenter https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Geologic Hazards Science Center
USGS_MissionArea https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Natural Hazards
USGS_keywords https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier Geography, Geomorphology

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