Rainfall intensity–duration thresholds for the initiation of landslides in Zhejiang Province, China》.pdf

Geomorphology 245 (2015) 193–206 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Geomorphology journal homepage: www.elsevier. com/ locate/geomorph Rainfall intensity–duration thresholds for the initiation of landslides in Zhejiang Province, China Tuhua Ma a, Changjiang Li a,⁎, Zhiming Lu b, Qiyun Bao c a Zhejiang Information Center of Land and Resources, 310007 Hangzhou, PR China b Computational Earth Science Group (EES-16), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA c Zhejiang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, 310007 Hangzhou, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Zhejiang Province, located in the southeast coastal region of China, is highly prone to rainfall-triggered landslides Received 12 January 2015 because of its geologic, geomorphologic, and climatic settings. The rainfall–landslide relationship is critically Received in revised form 14 May 2015 important for predicting rainfall-induced landslides. This study defines landslide-triggering rainfall intensity– Accepted 15 May 2015 duration thresholds for the entire Zhejiang region; and the 62 individual areas that comprise the region, based Available online 22 May 2015 on 1569 shallow landslides which occurred from 1990 to 2013 and their corresponding detail rainfall records from 2457 rain gauges in the region. The results indicate that the rainfall thresholds vary spatially over the region. Keywords: Shallow landslides