Volume, gravitational potential energy reduction, and regional centroid position change in the wake of landslides triggered by the 14 April 2010 Yushu earthquake of China

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2129-2138

  Xu, Chong ^a   Xu, Xiwei ^a   Pourghasemi, Hamid Reza ^b   Pradhan, Biswajeet ^c   Iqbal, Javed ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e Department of Earth Sciences COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Gravitational potential energy reduction; Landscape change; Landslides; Regional centroid position; The Yushu earthquake

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSLIDE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLUME; YUSHU EARTHQUAKE 2010;

CHINA;

EID: 84901494770     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-013-1020-4     Document Type: Article

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