The landslide story

Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in Iran: Lessons and “Lessons Learned” from Three Large Earthquake Disasters—Tabas 1978, Rudbar 1990, and Bam 2003

“…In 2005, the Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan triggered massive landslides. The more than 60,000 landslides that occurred after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China caused about one-third of the death toll (Huang and Fan 2013).…”

Effects of crop species richness on the community of soil nematodes in an experimental agro-ecosystem

“…By combining Equations (12) and (13), the total variance of correlated N variables can be revised into Equation (14).…”

“…Equation (14) can be borrowed to calculate the biomass loss variance of all the pixels that have auto-correlation. However, it needs to be noted that not all the pixels in the earthquake impact area are correlated with each other.…”

“…The pixels with distance beyond the range are independent to each other. Thus, Equation (14) need to be adjusted based on the range (Equation (15)). …”

Brief communication: Post-seismic landslides, the tough lesson of a catastrophe

“…Almost a century earlier, in 1933, Xinmo was struck by a magnitude M s 7.5 earthquake, during which large-scale landslides destroyed villages and choked rivers, producing dammed lakes that, collapsing, produced enormous floods, killing thousands of people (Cheng et al, 2008). Many coseismic landslides left large amounts of loose material along the slopes which, in turn, caused deadly debris flows and avalanches during every rainy season for decades -just like what happened, and is still happening, after the M s 8.0 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (Fan and Huang, 2013), not far away. However, what does not collapse during the quake is not exempt from damage.…”