Distribution pattern of earthquake-induced landslides triggered by the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Geomorphology

Volumn 133, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 152-167

  Gorum, Tolga ^a   Fan, Xuanmei ^a,b   van Westen, Cees J ^a   Huang, Run Qiu ^b   Xu, Qiang ^b   Tang, Chuan ^b   Wang, Gonghui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake induced landslide; Landslide distribution; Longmenshan; Sichuan; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PLANE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; LANDSLIDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

CHINA; LONGMEN MOUNTAINS; SICHUAN;

EID: 80052489984     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.030     Document Type: Article

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