Table 11 Activities required to prepare spatially explicit magnitude–frequency relations for landslides

Source area

Landslide reactivation event series prepared by dating the associated landslide reactivation features

Agliardi et al. (2009a)

Sizes of landslide scars

Pelletier et al. (1997)

Probabilistic analysis of cliff recession rates

Lee et al. (2002)

Reference section or location

Incident databases of roads and railway maintenance teams

Bunce et al. (1997), Hungr et al. (1999), Chau et al. (2003)

Spatial probability of occurrence combined with the expected probability of occurrence at each slope

Guzzetti et al. (2005)

Landslide series completed using proxy data such as silent witnesses (e.g. tree damage)

Jakob and Friele (2010), Stoffel (2010), Corominas and Moya (2010), Lopez Saez et al. (2012)

Landslide series completed by dating landslide deposits and field work

Van Dine et al. (2005), Jakob (1996, 2012)

Integrated approach

Landslide frequency at the source area combined with runout models to obtain frequencies of different landslide magnitudes at a given control section

Corominas et al. (2005)

Landslide frequency at the source area combined with runout models to obtain spatial distributions of different landslide magnitudes

Agliardi et al. (2009b)