Which risk intensifies when poorly consolidated alluvial sediments are saturated by heavy rainfall?

💡 Explanation

When rainfall saturates unconsolidated alluvial sediments, the water increases pore pressure while decreasing effective strength, triggering debris flows. Therefore heightened debris flow risk exists, rather than pyroclastic flows, weathering, or moraines which are related to volcanic eruptions, bedrock composition, and glacial activity respectively.

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