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Most previous field-based landslide investigations have revealed that many landslides have indicators for ongoing slow movements in the form of migrating and newly developing cracks. L-band ALOS\/PALSAR data for the period between 2007 and 2010 are available for the 484 km2 area in this study. We analyzed these data using the Small Baseline Subset (SBAS)  time-series technique to assess the surface deformation related to the activation of landslides. We observed up to \u00b117 mm\/year of LOS velocity deformation rates, which were projected along the local steepest slope and resulted in velocity rates of up to  \u221263 mm\/year. The obtained rates indicate very slow movement of the deep-seated landslides during the observation time. We also compared these movements with precipitation and earthquake records. The results suggest that the deformation peaks correlate with rainfall in the 3 preceding months and with an earthquake event. 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