An onshore landslide could result in extensive damages and casualties and an offshore landslide could also pose both direct threat to seabed infrastructure and indirect threat to coastal communities through the generation tsunamis. The primary focus of this research theme concentrates on the development and application of reliable model for predicting the entire process of landslides from their initiation through transportation to deposition and the generated tsunamis if they happen in underwater conditions.
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