Las Colinas landslide: Rapid and long-traveling soil flow caused by the January 13, 2001, El Salvador earthquake

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 375, Issue , 2004, Pages 39-53

  Konagai, Kazuo ^a   Johansson, Jorgen ^a   Mayorca, Paola ^a   Uzuoka, Ryosuke ^b   Yamamoto, Tetsuro ^c   Miyajima, Masakatsu ^d   Pulido, Nelson ^e   Sassa, Kyoji ^f   Fukuoka, Hiroshi ^f   Duran, Freddy ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grain crushing; Long traveling soil flow; Microtremor

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FLUIDIZATION;

EL SALVADOR EARTHQUAKES; GRAIN CRUSHING; JAPAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS; LABORATORY TEST; MICROTREMORS; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; SOIL FLOW;

SOILS;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MICROTREMOR; MOUNTAIN REGION;

EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA];

EID: 84858046532     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2375-2.39     Document Type: Article

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