Triggering and runaway processes of catastrophic Tsaoling landslide induced by the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake, as revealed by high-velocity friction experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1907-1915

  Togo, Tetsuhiro ^a   Shimamoto, Toshihiko ^a   Dong, Jia Jyun ^b   Lee, Chyi Tyi ^b   Yang, Che Ming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deep seated landslide; Earthquake induced landslide; High velocity friction experiment; Tsaoling landslide

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; SHALE; TRIBOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED LANDSLIDES; FRICTION EXPERIMENTS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; HIGH-VELOCITY FRICTIONS; INITIATION PROCESS; LANDSLIDE MOVEMENTS; OSCILLATION CYCLES; OVERBURDEN PRESSURES;

LANDSLIDES;

BEDDING PLANE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHI-CHI EARTHQUAKE 1999; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FRICTION; LANDSLIDE; OVERBURDEN; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SLIP RATE; VELOCITY;

TAIWAN; TSAOLING;

EID: 84898871847     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL059169     Document Type: Article

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