WHY WAS THE AUGUST 2010 ZHOUQU LANDSLIDE SO POWERFUL?

On August 8, 2010 in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu, rainstorm-triggered debris flow devastated the small county of Zhouqu. A modeling study, using a new multiple-phase scalable and extensible geo-fluid model, suggests that the cause is the result of an intersection of several events. Th...

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Main Authors: Diandong Ren, Lance Leslie, Mervyn Lynch, Qingyun Duan, Yongjiu Dai, Wei Shangguan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lomonosov Moscow State University 2013-03-01
Series:Geography, Environment, Sustainability
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Online Access:https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/122