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Role of Landslides on the Volume Balance of the Nepal 2015 Earthquake Sequence

Summary

This paper quantifies the volume balance resulting from the 2015 earthquake uplift (or subsidence) and landslide erosion. Starting from a new complete earthquake-induced landslide inventory, the calculation of Landslide volume was done by adopting different strategies for low-mobility and high-mobility landslides, considering also the potential supply of sediments to the drainage network. The results of this study show that the contribution of earthquake-induced landslides to erosion is about one order of magnitude smaller than the vertical coseismal displacement.

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Scientific reports


Published Year:

2015