Several controlling factors including topographic relief, slope steepness, and regional peak ground acceleration (PGA) were investigated to try to explain the great differences between the number, volume and area of the coseismic landslides associated with the two similar earthquakes. We found that the differences primarily arose from an unexpected factor, the dip angle of the seismogenic fault. This discovery should aid understanding the failure mechanisms of quake-triggered landslides, and suggests that more factors should be taken into consideration in estimating coseismic landslide volumes from earthquake magnitudes
Journal
Chong Xu, Xiwei Xu, Yingying Tian, Lingling Shen, Qi Yao, Xueqiang Huang, Junxue Ma, Xi Chen, Siyuan M
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=20&q=nepal+landslides&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&as_vis=1
Journal of Earth Science
China
2016