Landslide Warning System for Mount Pass, Malaysia Based on Surface Monitoring Technique

Interesting paper from Mr. Suhaimi Jamaluddin presented on Landslide Conference 2008 in Sendai Japan. Happy new year to you and hope to meet you in EGU 2010 Meeting in Vienna on mid year 2010.

Landslide Warning System for Mount Pass, Malaysia Based on Surface Monitoring Technique

Suhaimi Jamaludin1), Kamal Bahrin Jaafar, Che Hassandi Abdullah and Ashaari Mohamad

Abstract

A large landslide began in September 2003 in a newly-cut highway slope in a mountainous area of the State of Perak Malaysia. This site is located at the 44th kilometer of the Simpang Pulai – Kuala Berang Highway, and known as Mount Pass. The size of the mass is so huge, about 190m high and between 200m to 430m wide. Estimated volume of the unstable mass is about 2 to 3 million cubic meters. To reduce the consequences of catastrophic collapse of the active landslide, early warning system based on surface monitoring technique using robotic total station (SOKKIA SRX) was established. Background of the landslide, selected monitoring technique, proposed prediction model and analysis of the landslide movement pattern based on captured dataset will be presented in this paper.

Keywords: early warning system, surface monitoring technique, prediction model, landslide movement pattern