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Seismic landslides hazard zoning based on the modified Newmark model: a case study from the Lushan earthquake, China

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Seismically triggered landslides can cause great damage to the road construction in mountainous areas. The permanent displacement analysis based on Newmark sliding-block model can evaluate risk of these landslides from the perspective of deformation damage and overall failure probability of slopes. However, the sliding-block model does not consider the attenuation effect of the shear strength on the sliding surface during earthquake, causing the calculated value of Jibson method to be less than the actual value. Therefore, the Newmark model was modified by adding attenuation coefficients to the effective internal friction angle and the effective cohesion of geologic units. The landslide areal density was proposed for hazard zoning with the Wenchuan earthquake data. The results showed that the predicted values agreed well with the real distribution of the landslides triggered by the Lushan earthquake. The proposed hazard zoning method in this paper can predict the severity of seismic landslides in consideration of the environmental changes in mountainous regions after the earthquake and provide support for the site selection in highly seismic areas.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41530639 and 41571004).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China

    K. P. Jin & A. G. Xing

  2. College of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, People’s Republic of China

    L. K. Yao

  3. Department of Geological Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, People’s Republic of China

    Q. G. Cheng

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Jin, K.P., Yao, L.K., Cheng, Q.G. et al. Seismic landslides hazard zoning based on the modified Newmark model: a case study from the Lushan earthquake, China. Nat Hazards 99, 493–509 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03754-6

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