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Mapped polygons of landslides triggered by the 2016-2017 storm season, eastern San Francisco Bay region, California

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2016-11-01
End Date
2017-04-01

Citation

Corbett, S.C., and Collins, B.D., 2023, Mapped polygons of landslides triggered by the 2016-2017 storm season, eastern San Francisco Bay region, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P98MVEGI.

Summary

The winter rainy season of 2016-2017 brought abundant rainfall to the state of California, including the San Francisco Bay region. Thousands of shallow landslides were triggered as a result of saturated soils and intense rainfall from strong winter storms in January and February 2017. The highest concentration of landslides from these storms occurred in the eastern part of the bay region, where landslides in the hills east of the Cities of Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward, and Fremont, and elsewhere in the region, damaged homes, displaced a major electrical transmission-line tower, and blocked several heavily traveled state highway routes. The data presented here support our published map titled, "Landslides Triggered by the 2016-2017 [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Skye C Corbett
Originator :
Skye C Corbett, Brian Collins
Metadata Contact :
Skye C Corbett
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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EastBayBound-UTM.zip 64.46 KB application/zip
Landslide_Density_Contours_2017.zip 201.34 KB application/zip
Landslide_Location_Points_2017.zip 226.58 KB application/zip
Slide_Source_Area_2017.zip 706.02 KB application/zip
Slide_Source_Runout_Area_2017.zip 2.81 MB application/zip

Purpose

In the San Francisco Bay region, landslides usually take place each year during the winter rainy season, but widespread, intense rainfall events such as those whose effects are depicted here typically occur as a result of considerably above-average precipitation conditions. Although the landslides of early 2017 are not the most damaging to affect the region historically, they are still a potent reminder of the potential for landslide hazards present in the San Francisco Bay region.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P98MVEGI

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