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The June 2017 Maoxian landslide: Geological disaster in an earthquake area after the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake

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    YuePing Yin, WenPei Wang, Nan Zhang, JingKai Yan & YunJie Wei

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Yin, Y., Wang, W., Zhang, N. et al. The June 2017 Maoxian landslide: Geological disaster in an earthquake area after the Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 60, 1762–1766 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-017-9148-2

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