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How size and trigger matter: analyzing rainfall- and earthquake-triggered landslide inventories and their causal relation in the Koshi River basin, Central Himalaya [1]

The aim of this study is to investigate the differences in the mappable characteristics of earthquake-triggered and rainfall triggered landslides in terms of their frequency-area relationships, spatial distributions and relation with causal factors, and to evaluate whether separate susceptibility maps generated for specific landslide size and triggering mechanism are better than a generic landslide susceptibility assessment including all landslide sizes and triggers.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
12/06/2018
Jianqiang Zhang [3], Cees J. van Westen [4], Hakan Tanyas & et al [5]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences [6]
1-23
Tags:
Earthquakes [7], Rainfall [8], Landslides [9], Kosi [10], River Basin [11], India [12], Himalaya [13], Remote Sensing [14], China [15], Nepal [16]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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[2] https://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/nhess-2018-109/nhess-2018-109.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/jianqiang-zhang
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/cees-j-van-westen
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/hakan-tanyas-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rainfall
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/landslides
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kosi
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/river-basin
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/himalaya
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nepal