Jacques Locat, a professor emeritus at Universite Laval, says climate change models predict that southern Quebec will receive between 5% and 14% more rain by 2050
Climate change is likely to increase the frequency of weather events that cause landslides in Quebec, like the one that killed two people a week ago, said a researcher who studies natural risks.
On Saturday, torrential rain in Quebec’s Saguenay–Lac-St-Jean region contributed to several landslides – including one thatThat landslide, Locat said, appears to have been caused by erosion along the Eternite River and saturation of the embankment above the river, both of which triggered sandy material on top of the clay soil to slide downward.
“Erosion is the trigger of many landslides along watercourses and so climate change could have an effect on the frequency and significance of water level increases and, perhaps, an impact on superficial landslides,” Locat said. Last summer, more than 70 households were evacuated in La Baie, Que., part of the city of Saguenay, after a landslide destroyed an empty house, and officials feared further slides. In 1971, a landslide in another part of that city killed 31 people and led to the abandonment of the community of St-Jean-Vianney.
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