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Comparison of Relationship Between Debris-Flow Volume and Peak Discharge in Different Regions

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Debris flows frequently occurred in Wenchuan earthquake region from 2008 to 2010, resulting in great damage to localities and being a prolonged threat to reconstruction. Twenty eight events’ data including volume and peak discharge of debris–flow were analysed and compared with other debris-flow events in Switzerland, Japan, USA, China (Jiangjia gully), etc. The analysis reveals that there is a strong empirical relationship between debris-flow volume and debris-flow peak discharge in the earthquake region. However, the relationship between debris-flow volume and debris-flow peak discharge in Wenchuan earthquake is different with other regions. The volume of debris-flow with strong influence of earthquake is larger than that with no such influence under same peak discharge of debris-flow.

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This study was sponsored the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KFZD-SW-425) and the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51409243). Furthermore, we would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and editors for their comments.

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  4. International Consortium on Landslides, Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan

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Wang, T., Deng, M. (2021). Comparison of Relationship Between Debris-Flow Volume and Peak Discharge in Different Regions. In: Arbanas, Ž., Bobrowsky, P.T., Konagai, K., Sassa, K., Takara, K. (eds) Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk. WLF 2020. ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60713-5_15

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