Overview: Contains information on many recent natural hazards induced by large earthquakes and heavy rainfalls.Presents many case histories and lessons learned from the disasters in Japan and other Asian countr.This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held July 12–15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan. The workshop was the sixth in the series of Japan–Taiwan Joint Workshops on Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls, held under the auspices of the Asian Technical Committee No. 3 on Geotechnology for Natural Haz
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