Within the framework of natural risks mitigation, early warning systems (EWSs) are among the most valuable tools. The application of effective procedures aimed to identify a landslide time-of-failure and to assess alert thresholds is a key component in every EWS design process. For this reason, a wide number of methodologies have been proposed over the years, each focusing on a specific case
... [Show full abstract] study. This paper presents the application of a new generalized method, which is intended as a tool to assess alert thresholds for different landslide typologies. In particular, the proposed approach is developed to overcome the site-specific nature that characterizes the other methods, by identifying a common behavior in several different events. The generalized criterion features also the possibility to evaluate a theoretical time-of-failure by applying the inverse velocity method (IVM) to monitoring data. The proposed method is applied to a displacement monitoring dataset related to a slope collapse, in order to present an example of its implementation in a real case scenario.