Mass Wasting Hazards
The different types of Mass Wasting Hazards around the world are Falls/Avalanches, Landslides, Flow, and Creep. The type of mass wasting hazard that Japan gets hit by a lot is landslides. Landslides are sudden, have fast movements of soil or rock sticking together. There are two types of landslides in which they occur, one of them involves along a flat surface parallel to the angle of the slope in a stepped-liked pattern with no rotation. Meanwhile the other type has movement of surface material along a concave surface. Both of these types of landslides can be moist but are not usually saturated with water. On July 2018, the Japanese government confirmed that at least 155 people died in floods and landslides that were triggered by torrential rain in western Japan. It has been stated that it was the highest death toll caused by rainfall that Japan has seen in decades. Here are a few pictures of the damages: Here is how Japan has tried to prevent landslides: The Ministry o