Abstract
The increasing intensity of human activity is exposing more people and property in hill regions to geohazards (including rockfall, landslide, debris flow, et al.). In tectonically weak and humid (TWH) hilly areas, such as the Jiangxi Province, a large proportion of the losses in geohazards are caused by cut slope house-building (CSHB) landslides. The house is the “first line of defense” of a household against geohazards. However, previous studies mainly studied cut slope landslides themselves to reduce disaster losses, but few conducted analyses from the perspective of house damage. Considering the situation, this study makes an inventory of house damage information related to CSHB landslides in Jiangxi Province from 2019 to 2022 and analyzes the house damage characteristics, effects of influencing factors on house damage, and prevention suggestions in TWH hilly areas. Some main findings can be summarized as follows: (i) The main house with a brick-concrete structure will not collapse under the influence of 81.07% cut slope landslides; (ii) the first floor needs to be reinforced due to its high frequency of damage; (iii) the ancillary houses should be placed in front of the main house or on diagonal sides away from the cut slope and should not be set up as high-activity functional areas; (iv) the kitchen is the functional area with the most severe damage closely related to layout pattern and stability characteristics. Our study contributes to subsequent analysis of house damage or physical vulnerability, and disaster loss reduction in TWH hilly areas.
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We thank Dr. Ali Darvishi Boloorani (University of Tehran) for discussing and improving the English version. Many thanks will go to the editors and reviewers for their constructive comments.
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This work was supported by Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation [grant number: 20232BAB213073], Open Fund from Engineering Research Center for Seismic Disaster Prevention and Engineering Geological Disaster Detection of Jiangxi Province [grant number: SDGD202204], Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education Science and Technology Research Project [grant number: GJJ2200759], Jiangxi Provincial Department of Natural Resources Project [grant number: 360000243188887011285]), and ECUT’s 2019 the Start-up Fund of Research for recent Ph. D. graduates [grant number: DHBK2019044].
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Liu, Y., Shao, C., Wu, Y. et al. Analysis of house damage and prevention strategies for cut slope house-building landslides in tectonically weak and humid hilly areas: a case study of Jiangxi Province. Landslides (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-024-02245-5
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