Coupling of two natural complex systems: earthquake-triggered landslides

This thesis contains two main parts. The first part presents a database compiling 137 landslide-triggering earthquakes (LTEs) worldwide, with magnitudes greater than the minimum observed threshold for causing landslides (M4.5), for the period of 1998 -2009. Our data sources include a comprehensive r...

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Main Author: Ghahramani, Masoumeh
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6672