The Fate of Sediment After a Large Earthquake

Abstract

Large, continental earthquakes can produce thousands of coseismic landslides eroding several cubic kilometres of sediment from the hillslopes of tectonically active mountain ranges (Keefer, 2002;Malamud et al., 2004). Coseismic landsliding potentially accounts for over 50% of long term erosion rates in these mountains (G.