Landslide hazard cascades can trigger earthquakes

Abstract While earthquakes are well-known to trigger surface hazards and initiate hazard cascades, whether surface hazards can instead trigger earthquakes remains underexplored. In 2018, two landslides on the Tibetan plateau created landslide-dammed lakes which subsequently breached and caused catas...

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Main Authors: Zhen Zhang, Min Liu, Yen Joe Tan, Fabian Walter, Siming He, Małgorzata Chmiel, Jinrong Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47130-w