Spatial distribution of landslide dams triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Landslide Science and Practice: Complex Environment

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 279-285

  Fan, Xuanmei ^a,b   Van Westen, Cees J ^a   Xu, Qiang ^b   Gorum, Tolga ^a   Dai, Fuchu ^c   Wang, Gonghui ^d   Huang, Runqiu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Landslide; Landslide dam; Spatial distribution; Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

DAMS; EARTHQUAKES; LANDSLIDES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; HYDROLOGICAL FACTORS; LANDSLIDE DAM; LANDSLIDE DISTRIBUTIONS; MOUNTAIN BELTS; THRUST FAULTS; WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84898081141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31427-8_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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