ABSTRACT
Risk is commonly used as both a scientific term and a colloquialism. In general it is philosophically easy to comprehend. Risk is typically defined as some variation of the hazard times the consequence of that hazard occurring (Lee & Jones 2004). Recently, there has been considerable progress in the quantification of landslide hazard through the use of a characteristic magnitude and frequency (m/f) relation. The m/f relation is a type of hazard model (Lee & Jones 2004).
