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The catastrophic Wenchuan earthquake induced an unprecedented number of geohazards. The risk of heightened landslide frequency after a quake, with potential secondary effects such as river damming and subsequent floods, needs more focused attention.

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Figure 1: The Daguangbao landslide.

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Figure 2: Tectonic and geomorphic settings of the Wenchuan earthquake, China.

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  1. Runqiu Huang and Xuanmei Fan are at the State Key Laboratory of Geohazards Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China,

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  2. Xuanmei Fan is also at the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands,

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Huang, R., Fan, X. The landslide story. Nature Geosci 6, 325–326 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1806

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