Inventory of landslides triggered by an extreme rainfall event in Marche-Umbria, Italy, on 15 September 2022
Michele Santangelo, Omar F. Althuwaynee, Massimiliano Alvioli, Francesca Ardizzone, Cinzia Bianchi, Txomin Bornaetxea, Maria Teresa Brunetti, Francesco Bucci, Mauro Cardinali, Marco Donnini, Giuseppe Esposito, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Susanna Grita, Ivan Marchesini, Massimo Melillo, Silvia Peruccacci, Paola Salvati, Mahdi Yazdani, Federica Fiorucci
Abstract
Abstract Systematic and timely documentation of triggered (i.e. event) landslides is fundamental to build extensive datasets worldwide that may help define and/or validate trends in response to climate change. More in general, preparation of landslide inventories is a crucial activity since it provides the basic data for any subsequent analysis. In this work we present an event landslide inventory map (E-LIM) that was prepared through a systematic reconnaissance field survey in about 1 month after an extreme rainfall event hit an area of about 5000 km 2 in the Marche-Umbria regions (central Italy). The inventory reports evidence of 1687 triggered landslides in an area of ~550 km 2 . All slope failures were classified according to type of movement and involved material, and documented with field pictures, wherever possible. The database of the inventory described in this paper as well as the collection of selected field pictures associated with each feature is publicly available at figshare.