Three (nearly) complete inventories of landslides triggered by the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Mw 7.9 earthquake of China and their spatial distribution statistical analysis

Landslides

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 441-461

  Xu, Chong ^a,b   Xu, Xiwei ^a,b   Yao, Xin ^c   Dai, Fuchu ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Inventory; Landslide area percentage; Landslide number density; Landslides; Spatial distribution; Statistical analysis; The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LITHOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE-TRIGGERED LANDSLIDES; INVENTORY; LANDSLIDE AREAS; NUMBER DENSITY; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

LANDSLIDES;

CORRELATION; GEOTECHNICAL MAPPING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; SICHUAN; WENCHUAN;

EID: 84901986027     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-013-0404-6     Document Type: Article

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