Most fatal avalanche accidents in the Alps are caused by skiers and snowboarders. It has been one aim from the … beginning to give guidelines for backcountry skiers in order to avoid avalanche accidents. About 10 years ago, the mountain … decision strategy has a lack of empirical evidence because he does not take into account incidents without avalanche accidents …

Mass wasting and avalanche events substantially impact the landscape morphology and consequently human habitation … throughout the Himalaya. There is, however, a paucity of snow avalanche documentation for the region. The application of … dendrochronologic research methods introduces a sensitive approach to document the recurrence of snow avalanche events in a region where …

In the fjords of north-western Iceland, snow-avalanche and debris-flow hazards threaten 65% of the inhabitants. In this … vulnerability has increased during the last century, in connection with the population development of the Westfjords. Two snow-avalanche … disasters during 1995 (in which 34 people were killed in two villages) prompted efforts to both mitigate and prevent future snow-avalanche …

avalanche flow. The measurements during the passage of avalanches showed a specific spindle pattern which was quite different … from the one of natural earthquakes. The general trend strongly depended on the topographic features of the avalanche path …, and as a result we could estimate avalanche velocity. The running power spectrum showed a meaningful shift of the dominant …

such a collapse, we model the emplacement of the debris avalanche generated by a flank-collapse event in 1,250 BC (3 … parameter values determined from this simulation, we then simulate the debris avalanche which could be generated by a potential …

A parsimonious percolation model for stock market is proposed, of which the avalanche dynamics agree with the real … about the formation of the bullish/bearish market and corresponding avalanche taking place in the market indicate that the … magnified "herd behavior" resulting from the evolution of p may be the origin of the observed avalanche phenomena. …

We study avalanche dynamics on scale-free networks, following a power-law degree distribution, pd(k)∼k-γ, through the … exponents for the avalanche size and the duration distributions analytically as a function of γ and η by using the branching … the static model and real-world networks. While numerical results of the avalanche size distribution for artificial …

Avalanche dynamics is an indispensable feature of complex systems. Here, we study the self-organized critical dynamics …, we obtain the avalanche size and the duration distribution of sand toppling, which follow power-laws with exponents τ and …