A first database for landslide studies in densely urbanized areas of the intertropical zone: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

A detail first database for landslide studies in densely urbanized areas have been produced in two prone-areas which are mainly affected. During rain season, landslides occurred in Abobo and Attecoube causing social and economic damages. Studies on landslides have been restricted or often simply lacking. Landslides were located by GPS and tentatively dated through inquiries during the survey. While 12 landslides were accurately dated that way from the main rain seasons of 2013 to 2015, newspapers analysis and municipal archive consultation allowed us to assign a part of the rest to the last decade. Field inquiries were also used to collect information about fatalities and the local conditions of landsliding. This first landslide inventory in Attecoube provides clues about the main potential controls on landsliding, natural and anthropogenic, and will help define adequately anthropogenic variables to be used in the susceptibility modelling.