The power-law relationship between landslide occurrence and rainfall level

Geomorphology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 221-229

  Li, Changjiang ^a   Ma, Tuhua ^a   Zhu, Xingsheng ^a   Li, Wei ^a  

^a Zhejiang Information Center of Land and Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Fractals; Landslides; Power law distributions; Regional rainfall thresholds; Zhejiang, China

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; LANDSLIDE; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

CHINA; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 79956120686     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

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