GIS-based bivariate statistical modelling for earthquake-triggered landslides susceptibility mapping related to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China (original) (raw)

High-intensity earthquakes are capable of simultaneously triggering multiple landslides that cover a broad area. These earthquaketriggered landslides are significant contributors to loss of life and economic devastation in earthquake-affected regions throughout the world Xu et al. 2012a,f). To develop effective landslide disaster management and hazard mitigation strategies in earthquake-prone environments, it is very important to establish comprehensive inventories of landslides triggered by earthquake events and to use these inventories to generate seismic landslide susceptibility analyses (e.g. Lin