Why was the August 2010 Zhouqu landslide so powerful?

On August 8, 2010 in the north western Chinese province of Gansu, rainstorm-triggered debris flow devastated the small county of Zhouqu. A modelling study, using a new multiple-phase scalable and extensible geo-fluid model, suggests that the cause is the result of an intersection of several events....

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Main Authors: Ren, Diandong, Leslie, L., Lynch, Mervyn, Duan, Q., Dai, Y., Shangguan, W.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Moskovskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova * Fakul'tet Geografii 2013
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Online Access:http://int.rgo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/GES-I-2013.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46635