Germany's Mass Wasting Risks

RIVER FLOODING: Germany has a High level risk for river flooding. According to ThinkHazard, potential damaging and life-threatening river floods are expected to occur at least once in the next ten years. As you can see from the Map above the area colored red is a high risk which pretty much covers the whole country. The orange is for medium risk, then yellow indicates low. Out of all of the Mass Wasting Risks, for Germany this is the most significant one.


LANDSLIDES; MUDSLIDES and ROCKSLIDES


For Germany the risk of landslide susceptibility, mudslides and rockslides are classified as a medium level risk. According to Thinkhazard, this means from the current information available Germany has rainfall patterns, terrain slope, geology, soil, land cover and (potentially) earthquakes that make localized landslides an infrequent hazard phenomenon. As you can see above the risk for landslides in Germany on the map in yellow is very low risk, which covers the northern part of the country. Most of the western part of the country in darker orange is medium risk. The southeastern part in lighter orange is low risk.

From the perspective of both the frequency of disasters and the extent of damage caused by weather related events as point out by the DKKV, natural hazards in Germany are primarily storms and floods, but also extreme temperatures such as heat waves. 


https://thinkhazard.org>masswastingrisks>germany
https://dkkv.org>topics>naturalhazards


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  1. KatieMarch 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM

    Hi Kirk! Interesting post. I never knew Germany's risks were classified as medium level.

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  2. Ana GGMarch 18, 2024 at 11:29 AM

    Interesting research-what are their mitigation measures for those landslides?

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