Emergency response to the Tangjiashan landslide-dammed lake resulting from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, China

Landslides

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-98

  Chen, Xiao Qing ^a,b   Cui, Peng ^a,b   Li, Yong ^a,b   Zhao, Wan Yu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Artificially controlled failure; Emergency response; Landslide dammed lake; Mitigation; Wenchuan Earthquake

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; ARTIFICIALLY CONTROLLED FAILURE; CHANNEL SLOPE; COMMON FEATURES; DOWNSTREAM AREAS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; INCISION RATES; LANDSLIDE DAM; MITIGATION; NATURAL DAM; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

DAMS; DESIGN; EARTHQUAKES; LAKES; RIVER CONTROL; SLOPE PROTECTION;

LANDSLIDES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DAM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; RIVER CHANNEL; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; SPILLWAY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 79952444683     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-010-0236-6     Document Type: Article

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