Natural Hazards On the Land Roads in The ALjabal Alkhdar: A Study in The Geography of Natural Hazards and Disasters.

Abstract

There are many natural hazards that occur due to natural factors and that causes also by many human users which resulting the dangers such as; degradations, mass wasting on the slopes in the adjacent to the roads.

Roads crossed by streams' channels, or stretching, in addition to heavy dangers of the many road meanders with poor visions, and finally the danger resulting arising from the landslides with mudflow and soil creeping, which results surface tension and waves along the roads.

The study has based on the felid work over the area land roads. In addition to analyzing stalliate images, the study has also calculating and applied the disasters indicators to study the vegetation cover, floods and slops of the land features. The research has also determined the danger in space and time at the areas road citing map such as; risk of the road meanders, road erosion and it has calculated de tour index of the network roads in the study areas.