Landslides triggered by the 12 January 2010 Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Mw = 7.0 earthquake: Visual interpretation, inventory compiling, and spatial distribution statistical analysis

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1789-1818

  Xu, C ^a,b   Shyu, J B H ^b   Xu, X ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; HAITI EARTHQUAKE 2010; LANDSLIDE; PEAK ACCELERATION; ROCKFALL; SLOPE ANGLE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84904978347     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-14-1789-2014     Document Type: Article

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