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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Landslides Triggered by the Ms6.5 Ludian, China Earthquake of August 3, 2014

Authors : Kai-heng Hu, Xing-zhang Chen, Yong-gang Ge, Xing-yuan Jiang, Yang-chun Wang

Published in: Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

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Abstract

Ludian Earthquake (Ms6.5, Mw6.1) on August 3, 2014 has induced many new slope failures, and resulted in more than 600 deaths and significant property losses. The seismogenic fault is a left-lateral strike-slip hidden fault, an extension of NW–SE Baogunao-Xiaohe Fault. 235 landslides induced by the earthquake have been interpreted by field investigation and remote sensing. The high-susceptibility ranges of different effective factors to the landslides are examined by the index of the ratio of occurrence probabilities. Unlike other earthquake events such as the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, most of the landslides are located in the footwall, and their spatial arrangement is controlled by the NE oriented main fault of Zhaotong-Ludian, not by the NW seismogenic fault. Four large-scale landslides very closed to the seismogenic fault are described in details. The sliding direction of the four landslides is influenced strongly by the fault properties and the aspect of free face, and there are two principal directions for the large landslides.

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Metadata
Title
Landslides Triggered by the Ms6.5 Ludian, China Earthquake of August 3, 2014
Authors
Kai-heng Hu
Xing-zhang Chen
Yong-gang Ge
Xing-yuan Jiang
Yang-chun Wang
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-53484-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-53485-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53485-5_13