How do human activities directly contribute to landslides?

Human activities directly contribute to landslides especially the kaingin system practiced by some farmers and the ruthless illegal logging for some loggers. These selfish practices harmed the nature causing soil erosion and worse landslides due to the absence of trees. 

They immigrated for religious freedom

Geothermic gradient is the rate of increasing temperature with respect to increasing the depth in the earths interior. away from tech tonic plates boundaries, it is about 25-40 c/km (72-87 degrees f/mi) of depth near the surface in most of the world.