Landslides induced by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China

Geomorphology

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 225-238

  Chigira, Masahiro ^a   Wu, Xiyong ^b   Inokuchi, Takashi ^c   Wang, Gonghui ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault surface rupture; Inner valley; Landslides; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOLOMITE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HANGING WALL; LANDSLIDE; POREWATER; SEISMIC WAVE; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; VALLEY FILL;

CHINA; MIN RIVER [SICHUAN]; SICHUAN;

EID: 77952887462     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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