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Understanding the causes of slope development with movement initiation of land sliding requires knowledge on dynamicity, displacement, strain concentration and factor of safety. The 13th mile landslide on Gangtok-Nathula road of the Sikkim Himalaya has seriously affected the Indo-China trade route. To quantify the spatial movement pattern, strain analysis and identification of zones of safety were attempted which indicates that differential movement activity of the landslide zone is co-relatable with differential strain pattern with an overall imprint of the Himalaya collision tectonics.
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Hindayar, J.N., Dasarwar, P., Srivastava, S.P. et al. Dynamicity of the Himalayan landslide — A tectono-geotechnical appraisal of the 13th mile landslide, Sikkim. J Geol Soc India 88, 197–205 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-016-0478-6
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