Extreme weather events have induced more frequent geological hazards in Taiwan. The heavy rainfall brought by the Typhoon Morakot has triggered a large amount of landslides including the Xiaolin village which was demolished by a catastrophic Landslides. The study of such catastrophic landslides is urgently needed. It is considered that the creep phase of a landslides is a preparatory stage of progressive failure and gives enough signals before turning into a catastrophic landslides. This study used high-resolution airborne LiDAR-derived DEM data from the Central Geological Survey, MOEA. We used different geomorphometric analyses to process the high resolution and high accuracy DEM data including the hillshade, aspect, slope, eigenvalue ratio & openness. Among these geomorphometric analyses, which to converged openness, slope and hillshade method of the results, the capacity to discuss the possible cause and the influence analysis of the catastrophic Landslides in view of the slight terrain features has increased drastically through DEM processing. Our results indicate that over hundreds potential catastrophic landslides may present in southern Taiwan after the Typhoon Morakot event. The quantitative methods used in this study highlight the terrain features of the creep phase of catastrophic landslides and is helpful for landslide feature interpretation and hazard assessment.