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 Hazards of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. It was co-organized by the Japanese Geotechnical Society and the Taiwanese Geotechnical Society.

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