Abstract
Recently from 9th to 15th May 2022, extreme rainfall has been showered in parts of the Dima Hasao district of Assam, India. This rainfall event accompanied catastrophic landslides and flood situations in this area, and about 30,000 people were directly affected. Therefore, to provoke wide public attention, this study underlines a preliminary assessment of landslides reported from different parts of Dima Hasao, including their locality, description, and impacts. At the same time, this study also encourages future research in favour of landslide hazard and risk mitigation in Northeast India.
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The authors are thankful to the Director, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India, for granting permission to publish this work. The first author acknowledges University Grants Commission (New Delhi, India) for providing the fellowship under Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) Scheme (UGC-Ref. No. 3511/(NET-JULY 2018)) and AcSIR (Ghaziabad, India) for carrying out this present research work.
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Das, S., Sarkar, S. & Kanungo, D.P. Rainfall-induced landslide (RFIL) disaster in Dima Hasao, Assam, Northeast India. Landslides 19, 2801–2808 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01962-z
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