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Coseismic landslides triggered by the 2022 Luding Ms6.8 earthquake, China

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On September 5, 2022, an Ms6.8 earthquake struck Luding County, Sichuan Province, China. Through creating a coseismic landslide prediction model, we obtained the spatial distribution of the triggered geological hazards immediately after the earthquake. Through collecting all available multi-source optical remote sensing images of the earthquake-affected area via UAV and satellite platforms, the exact information of coseismic landslide was achieved by pattern recognition and visual inspection. According to the current results, the Luding earthquake triggered 5336 landslides with a total area of 28.53km2. The spatial distribution of the coseismic landslides is correlated statistically to various seismic, terrain, and geological factors, to evaluate their susceptibility at regional scale and to identify the most typical characteristics of these failures. The results reveal that the coseismic landslides mainly occurred on the sides of the Xianshuihe fault (within 1.2 km) and Dadu River (within 0.5 km) in striped patterns. They are concentrated in the regions with an elevation range of 1000–1800 m, a slope range of 25–55°, and lithologies of acid plutonic rocks, mixed sedimentary rocks, and siliciclastic sedimentary rocks. Besides, the coseismic landslides of the Luding earthquake are smaller in size and shallower than those triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and the 2017 Jiuzhaigou earthquake. Rapidly achieving the spatial locations and distribution patterns of the coseismic landslides enables to provide effective support and guidance to emergency rescue, risk mitigation, and reconstruction planning.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Sichuan Bureau of Surveying, Mapping and Geographic Information, Chengdu Jouav Automation Tech Co., Ltd., and Wuhan Dida Information Engineering Co., LTD., for providing satellite- and UAV-based remote sensing images. We also thank the Sichuan Earthquake Administration for providing the seismic intensity and PGA maps.

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This research is financially supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Grant No.42125702), the Tencent Foundation through the XPLORER PRIZE (Grant No.XPLORER-2022-1012), and the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province (Grant No. 2022NSFSC0003).

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Dai, L., Fan, X., Wang, X. et al. Coseismic landslides triggered by the 2022 Luding Ms6.8 earthquake, China. Landslides 20, 1277–1292 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-023-02061-3

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