Rainfall thresholds for the occurrence of debris flows in the Jiangjia Gully, Yunnan Province, China》.pdf

Engineering Geology 195 (2015) 335–346 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Engineering Geology journa l homepage: /locate/enggeo Rainfall thresholds for the occurrence of debris flows in the Jiangjia Gully, Yunnan Province, China Jianqi Zhuang a,b,⁎, Peng Cui c, Gonghui Wang d, Xiaoqing Chen c, Javed Iqbal e, Xiaojun Guo c a School of Geological Engineering and Surveying of Changan University, Key Laboratory of Western China Mineral Resources and Geological Engineering, Xian 710054, China b Institute of Geo-hazards Mitigation of Changan University, Xian 710054, China c Institute of Mountain hazards and Environment, CAS, Chengdu 610064, China d Research Centre on Landslides, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan e Department of Earth Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The Jiangjia Gully (JJG), Yunnan Province, China, is one of several debris flow gullies that characterize the topog- Received 24 September 2014 raphy of mountainous areas in China. Rainfall-triggered debris flows are frequent in the JJG. In order to model and Received in revised form 10 June 2015 predict these debris flow occurrences, we analyzed precipitation parameters (including intensity–duration Accepted 14 June 2015 thresholds and rainfall event–duration thresholds) that triggered past debris flow events in the JJG. Since the Available online 17 June 2015