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Rainfall-induced landslides assessment in the Fengjie County, Three-Gorge reservoir area, China

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It is critical to accurately assess the location and evolution of impending landslide hazards, especially when influenced by the effects of climate change. However, most existing landslide models only analyze the stability of individual grid cells without considering soil interaction between adjacent cells. This means that the stability of individual grid cells is not necessarily representative of actual slope stability at a given location, in turn affecting the accuracy of landslide stability assessments. In this paper, slope units are defined using the morphological image analysis and homogeneous slope unit method to represent the actual slope conditions and to extract the profile of each slope unit. The critical slip surface of the soil mass is investigated to account for the interaction between adjacent grid cells within the slope unit. A probabilistic analytical landslide model is established and the response mechanism of the hydrological processes is proposed. This model is applied to landslide hazard assessment in the Three-Gorges Reservoir Area, Fengjie County, China. Using historical rainfall data, the distribution of landslide hazards is analyzed for different antecedent precipitation levels and rainfall return periods. The results show that the amount of antecedent precipitation, and rainfall return period, have different effects on landslide triggering in the area. Importantly, the model reveals that extreme rainfall events induced by climate change will lead to a large number of new landslides in areas where they are not anticipated. Further investigation and monitoring (e.g., early-warning systems, long-term assessment) of rainfall-induced landslides in the Three-Gorges Reservoir Area is recommended.

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This work was supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No. 2020YFS0028), the Key Scientific Research project of Higher Education Institutions, Henan Province, China (No.20A560024), the Young scholar training program of Zhongyuan university of technology, Henan Province, China, and the funding of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41772323; 41972292), Shaanxi Province International Science and Technology Cooperation and Exchange Program Key Project (2019KWZ-02), National key research and development project Research and development of engineering geology and soil collapsibility stabilization technology and standards for gully control and land rebuilding (2017YFD0800501).

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  1. Department of Geology, State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi′an, 710069, China

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  2. Institute of Civil Engineering, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450007, China

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  3. Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Process, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China

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Wang, K., Zhang, S. Rainfall-induced landslides assessment in the Fengjie County, Three-Gorge reservoir area, China. Nat Hazards 108, 451–478 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04691-z

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