Landslide dams triggered by the Wenchuan Earthquake, Sichuan Province, south west China

Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-386

  Xu, Qiang ^a   Fan, Xuan Mei ^a,b   Huang, Run Qiu ^a   Westen, Cee Van ^a,b  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barrier lake; Breach; Hazard; Landslide dam; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; BARRIER LAKE; BREACH; CLASSIFICATION ,; DEBRIS FLOWS; HAZARD EVALUATION; LANDSLIDE DAM; MITIGATION MEASURES; NATURAL DAM; ROCK AVALANCHE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SICHUAN BASIN; SICHUAN PROVINCE; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE; WEST CHINA;

DAMS; DEBRIS; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; PHOTOGRAPHY;

LANDSLIDES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DAM; DEBRIS FLOW; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN BASIN;

EID: 68249151087     PISSN: 14359529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10064-009-0214-1     Document Type: Article

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