Week 8 Mass Wasting

                                                             Mass Wasting Hazards

Mass Wasting is the downhill movement of soil and rocks fragments induced by gravity. Indonesia have landslides and floods triggered by torrential downpours. For Mass Wasting hillsides and downhill movement are examples of mass wasting. According to a 2015 article landslides claimed 248 lives in 2014.

                                                    Indonesia Prevention plans

According to Land-risk in Indonesia website Indonesia officials have been preventing from constructing buildings near high risk areas.

                                                                    Citations

http://carlycburg.blogspot.com/2015/04/mass-wasting-in-indonesia.html 

https://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2011/en/bgdocs/Cepeda_et_al._2010.pdf