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Map of slope-failure locations in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María

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2017-09-22
End Date
2017-11-30

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Hughes, K.S., Bayouth García, D., Martínez Milian, G.O., Schulz, W.H., and Baum, R.L., 2019, Map of slope-failure locations in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BVMD74.

Summary

In Puerto Rico, tens of thousands of landslides, slumps, debris flows, rock falls, and other slope failures were triggered by Hurricane María, which made landfall on 20 September 2017. “Landslide” is used here and below to represent all types of slope failures. This dataset is a point shapefile of landslide headscarps identified across Puerto Rico using georeferenced aerial and satellite imagery recorded following the hurricane. The imagery used includes publicly available aerial imagery obtained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA; Quantum Spatial, Inc., 2017), aerial imagery obtained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA; NOAA, 2017), and several WorldView satellite imagery datasets available from [...]

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Data presented herein were collected to document slope failures triggered in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria during September 2017. Data may be useful for increasing understanding of landslide hazards in Puerto Rico and elsewhere, and to support and test landslide susceptibility modeling efforts for Puerto Rico.

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