Study on the rainfall and aftershock threshold for debris flow of post-earthquake

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 750-756

  He, Siming ^a,b   Li, Dexin ^a,b   Wu, Yong ^a,b   Luo, Yu ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Debris flow; Earthquake; Hydrological model; Rainfall threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052895842     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-011-2046-2     Document Type: Article

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