Abstract
5.12 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 caused tens of thousands of landslides, avalanches, rockfalls and other secondary geological disasters, and the people in disaster areas suffered a tragic loss of life and property. In particular, the destruction of large area, a wide range of large landslide hazards to human life and property were caused by the catastrophe, and the potential risk still exists. Through the field surveys, data access, etc., the authors analyzed the distribution of large landslides triggered by the Wenchuan earthquake.
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This work was supported by land and resources investigated project of China Geological Survey (No. 1212010740309). Hua Ge, Hongfu Zhou, Qiguo Chen, Yongbo Tie, Ping Sun, et al. participated in field survey. Professor Wenyu Fan, Researcher Minghui Li and Engineer Renji Ba provided significant assistance. At this point, to express our heartfelt gratitude for their help.
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Chang, X., Wang, D., Ge, W., Wei, L., Zheng, W., Tang, Y. (2014).
Study on the Distribution of Large-Landslides Triggered by Wenchuan Earthquake.
In: Sassa, K., Canuti, P., Yin, Y. (eds) Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04996-0_27
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