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Landslides triggered by the 2010 Yushu earthquake (revised after Xu et al. 2013a). Upper-right inset shows major events of or near Tibet in recent years. a Epicenter of the 2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu earthquake; b epicenter of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake; c epicenter of the 2001 Mw 7.8 Kokoxili earthquake; d epicenter of the 1997 Mw 7.6 Manyi earthquake; e epicenter of the 2008 Mw 7.1 Yutian earthquake; BHB the Bayan Har block; QB Qiangtang block; F1 the Xianshuihe fault zone, the Garzê-Yushu fault is a segment of the Xianshuihe fault; F2 the Longmenshan thrust belt; F3 the Eastern Kunlun fault; JG Jiegu Town, county station of the Yushu County; JL Jielong Town; GY Guoyangyansongduo Village. Beach balls, indicating earthquake focal mechanisms, are downloaded from http://www.globalcmt.org/CMTsearch.html 

Landslides triggered by the 2010 Yushu earthquake (revised after Xu et al. 2013a). Upper-right inset shows major events of or near Tibet in recent years. a Epicenter of the 2010 Mw 6.9 Yushu earthquake; b epicenter of the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake; c epicenter of the 2001 Mw 7.8 Kokoxili earthquake; d epicenter of the 1997 Mw 7.6 Manyi earthquake; e epicenter of the 2008 Mw 7.1 Yutian earthquake; BHB the Bayan Har block; QB Qiangtang block; F1 the Xianshuihe fault zone, the Garzê-Yushu fault is a segment of the Xianshuihe fault; F2 the Longmenshan thrust belt; F3 the Eastern Kunlun fault; JG Jiegu Town, county station of the Yushu County; JL Jielong Town; GY Guoyangyansongduo Village. Beach balls, indicating earthquake focal mechanisms, are downloaded from http://www.globalcmt.org/CMTsearch.html 

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The April 14, 2010 Yushu, China, earthquake (Mw 6.9) triggered a great number of landslides. At least 2,036 co-seismic landslides, with a total coverage area of 1.194 km2, were delineated by visual interpretation of aerial photographs and satellite images taken following the earthquake, and verified by field inspection. Based on the mapping results...

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... shown in Fig. 2, the 2,036 landslides are distributed in an approximately rectangle of 1,455.3 km 2 . The total superficial area of these landslides is about 1.194 km 2 . Shallow and disrupted landslides are dominant, also including rock falls, deep-seated landslides, liq- uefaction-induced landslides, and compound landslides ( Xu et al. 2013a). The main co- seismic surface rupture is in approximately alignment with the central line of the rectangle aforementioned (Fig. 2). Most of the co-seismic landsides occurred in clusters near the surface rupture ...
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... shown in Fig. 2, the 2,036 landslides are distributed in an approximately rectangle of 1,455.3 km 2 . The total superficial area of these landslides is about 1.194 km 2 . Shallow and disrupted landslides are dominant, also including rock falls, deep-seated landslides, liq- uefaction-induced landslides, and compound landslides ( Xu et al. 2013a). The main co- seismic surface rupture is in approximately alignment with the central line of the rectangle aforementioned (Fig. 2). Most of the co-seismic landsides occurred in clusters near the surface rupture ...
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... is widely recognized that lithology plays an important role in co-seismic landslides occurrence, because strength structure, permeability, and composition, etc. of soil or rocks that constituting slopes determine the probability of landslide occurrence. From the geo- logical map at a scale of 1:200,000 of the China Geological Survey (Fig. 7), the lithology of the study area is divided into eleven categories (Table 3): Q 4 h, Q 4 al-pl, N, T 3 b, T 3 kn 3 , T 3 kn 2 , T 3 kn 1 , T 2 jl 2 , T 2 jl 1 , C-P, and magmatic rocks. The lithology map, originally in vector format, is converted into raster format at 5 9 5 m resolution using the GIS software. As shown in Table 3 and Figs. 5f and 6f, the units Q 4 al-pl, N, and T 3 kn 1 (classes 2, 3, and 7) have higher LAP and LND than other units. The unit of N is composed of quartz sandstone, breccia, and T 3 kn 1 unit is composed of feldspathic sandstone, siltstone, slate, limestone, phyllite, which have low shear strength and are heavily fractured. In addition, Q 4 al-pl unit is composed of alluvium, fluvial deposits, and gravel, often distributed in valleys. Those places with these geological units are often landslide accumulation areas. Table 2 4.3 Landslide concentration versus earthquake parameters Strong negative correlations are present between LAP and LND and the distance from main surface ruptures (Figs. 5g, 6g). The spatial distribution map (Fig. 2) shows that landslides are concentrated along the main seismic surface ruptures. Buffer zones for distance to the surface rupture are set to 500 m, and 21 intervals are obtained. Most landslides (1,187 landslides or 58.3 % of the total landslide number) occur within 2.5 km from the main surface ruptures. These landslides have an aggregate total area of 0.82 km 2 (68.8 % of the total), indicating that the landslides relatively close to the surface ruptures are on average also relatively larger. Few landslides occur more than 5 km from the surface ...
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... infer that two reasons account for landslide number, landslide area, LAP, and LND on the North side being higher than on the South side. Firstly, the average slope angle on the North side (18.57°) is greater than on the South side (14.01°). There were the tectonic activity differences of the two sides: the North side is located on the Bayan Har block, which has experienced several big earthquakes whereas the South side is located on the Qiangtang block, which is more quietly and less earthquake events along its boundary in recent decades. These large earthquakes (Fig. 2) including the May 12, Wenchuan Mw 7.9 earthquake, the March 21, 2008 Yutian Mw 7.1 earthquake, the November 14, 2001 Kokoxili Mw 7.8 earthquake, and the November 8, 1997 Manyi Mw 7.6 earthquake ( Xu et al. 2013f). Nevertheless, the spatial distributions of landslides triggered by the Yushu earthquake are largely similar on either side of the surface ...
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... Yushu earthquake occurred on the Garzê-Yushu fault, a sinistral strike-slip fault on the western segment of the Xianshuihe fault zone; 40 km west of Jiegu Town, Yushu County, Qinghai Province, in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. After the quake, the Jiegu and Jielong towns were severely affected, and a 300°-striking, 65-km-long surface rupture zone was seen along the fault. The surface rupture zone consists of shear, transtensional, trans- pressional, and tension cracks, as well as mole tracks in right-stepovers and small pull- aparts in left-stepovers between en echelon cracks with left-lateral components ( Xu et al. 2010a). The average left-lateral slip is 1 m with a maximum slip of 2.4 m. The surface rupture zone can be divided into two relatively independent sections: the Jielong section and Jiegu section. The former is 15 km long with a maximum left-lateral slip of 0.66 m, while the latter is about 31 km long with a maximum left-lateral slip of 2.4 m, located near the Guoyangyansongduo Village. The two independent sections correspond to a Mw 6.4 sub-event and to a Mw 6.9 sub-event, respectively (Fig. 2). The Mw 6.4 sub-event was initiated on the Jielong sub-fault near the epicenter, which is dominated by left-lateral slip with normal slip component. The other sub-event triggered left-lateral slip on the Jiegu sub-fault to produce the Mw 6.9 sub-event. ( Xu et al. 2010aXu et al. , 2013aPan et al. 2010;Wu et al. 2010;Chen et al. ...
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... from surface rupture/m (1): 0-500; (2): 500-1,000; (3): 1,000-1,500; (4): 1,500-2,000; (5): 2,000-2,500; (6): 2,500-3,000; (7): 3,000-3,500; (8): 3,500-4,000; (9): 4,000-4,500; (10): 4,500-5,000; (11): 5,000-5,500; (12): 5,500-6,000; (13): 6,000-6,500; (14): 6,500-7,000; (15): 7,000-7,500; (16): 7,500-8,000; (17): 8,000-8,500; (18): 8,500-9,000; (19): 9,000-9,500; (20): 9,500-10,000; (21) together form the boundary fault system of the of Bayan Har block (Fig. 2). The left-lateral slip for those ruptures along the Garzê-Yushu fault and the Eastern Kunlun fault and the reverse slip for the 2008 Wenchuan rupture along the Longmenshan thrust belt may indicate that the southeastward block motion controls the faulting behavior along its boundary fault system ( Xu et al. 2010a). As of April 25, 2010 at 15:00 (Beijing time), 1,467 aftershocks were recorded, 13 aftershocks with magnitude Ms C 3.0, with the strongest measured as Ms 6.2 on April 14, 2010 at 09:25:17.8 (Beijing ...

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