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Landslides Triggered by Earthquakes from 1920 to 2015

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Seismic activity is one of the major causes of landslides around the world. Several studies have examined the characteristics of earthquake-induced landslides following major earthquake events. Previous studies have also combined the characteristics of the earthquakes and the landslides triggered from these studies to develop relationships between the magnitude of the earthquake and the total area affected by the earthquake, the maximum distance to the landslide observations from the epicenter or fault rupture. However, the relationships between the magnitude and the number of landslides as well as the peak ground acceleration and the number of landslides have not been developed. In this study, 35 historical earthquake events from 1920 to 2015 were examined. The results show that the previous proposed relationship between the magnitude of the earthquake and the total area affected by the landslides is valid for the earthquake events examined in this study. However, in this paper a relationship between the peak ground acceleration and the total area affected by landslides is developed. In addition, the total number of moderate to large scale landslides and total number of all landslides have been correlated with the magnitude and the peak ground acceleration. The results from this study suggest the use of the peak ground acceleration as opposed to the earthquake magnitude in the study of earthquake-induced landslides.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, California State University, Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd., E-419, Fullerton, CA, 92831, USA

    Binod Tiwari

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, California State University, Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd., E-318, Fullerton, CA, 92831, USA

    Beena Ajmera

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  2. Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California, USA

    Binod Tiwari

  3. China Institute of Geo-Environment Monitoring, China Geological Survey, Beijing, China

    Yueping Yin

  4. International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto, Japan

    Kyoji Sassa

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Tiwari, B., Ajmera, B. (2017). Landslides Triggered by Earthquakes from 1920 to 2015. In: Mikos, M., Tiwari, B., Yin, Y., Sassa, K. (eds) Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides. WLF 2017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53498-5_2

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