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Use of Indirect Evidence for the Prehistoric Earthquake-Induced Landslides Identification

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Presence of large and/or long runout prehistoric rockslides is often equalized with an evidence of strong past earthquakes without providing any additional reasons in favor of such assumption—just due to enormous size and surface expression of these features. The erroneous assumption on seismic origin of a particular landslide or group of landslides would cause not only an overestimation of seismic hazard, but, also, underestimation of an overall landslide hazard due to much longer recurrence period of large earthquakes in comparison with other triggering phenomena like rainstorms. Examples of reliable substantiation of seismic origin of large rockslides based on identification of spatially distributed sedimentary features in the lacustrine environment closely timed to river damming event are presented and discussed.

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  1. Head of Seismic Hazard Assessment Department, Geodynamics Research Center—Branch of JSC “Hydroproject Institute”, Volokolamskoe Shosse 2, 125993, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Strom

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  1. , Dept. of Civil & Environ. Engineering, Gunma University, Tenjin 1-5-1, Kiryu, 376-8515, Gunma, Japan

    Keizo Ugai

  2. , Faculty of Education, Art and Science, Yamagata University, Kojirakawa 1-4-12, Yamagata, 990-8567, Japan

    Hiroshi Yagi

  3. , Dept. of Civil & Environ. Engineering, Gunma University, Tenjin 1-5-1, Kiryu, 376-8515, Gunma, Japan

    Akihiko Wakai

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Strom, A. (2013). Use of Indirect Evidence for the Prehistoric Earthquake-Induced Landslides Identification. In: Ugai, K., Yagi, H., Wakai, A. (eds) Earthquake-Induced Landslides. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32238-9_3

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