Introduction . Landslides cause economic damages worth 20 billion US dollars every year1, and between 2004 and 2019 non-seismic landslides alone caused about 70,000 fatalities worldwide2. Within the first two months of 2024, we have seen reports of devastating landslides in Colombia3, Southern Philippines4, and Yunnan, China5, injuring many and killing approximately 74 people. Adding to this, recent studies count over one million landslide occurrences, with ...