A probabilistic method to assess the regional susceptibility of landslides induced by earthquake in Kitakyushu city, Japan

Disaster Advances

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-18

  Sun, Junjie ^a   Wang, Lanmin ^b   Chen, Guangqi ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Landslide susceptibility; Monte carlo simulation; Newmark stability analysis; Probability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEBRIS FLOW; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; LANDSLIDE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLIDING; SLOPE ANGLE; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; STABILITY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

FUKUOKA [KYUSHU]; JAPAN; KITAKYUSHU; KYUSHU;

EID: 79951842380     PISSN: 0974262X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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