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Deformation characteristics of a large landslide reactivated by human activity in Wanyuan city, Sichuan Province, China

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With the rapid urbanization, an increasing number of landslides have been induced by human activities. In this study, a typical human-induced landslide known as the Maobazi landslide, which was triggered by foundation pit excavation in Sichuan Province, China, was analyzed. An emergency investigation was carried out to detect the basic deformation characteristics, followed by implementations of multiple monitoring schemes and emergency control measures to monitor and control reactivated deposits. The reactivated deposits depicted rapid deformations with a maximum deformation exceeding 140 mm from July to September before the emergency control measures were completed. The reactivated deposits gradually settled and were finally controlled in 2019. The results showed that the 2019 Maobazi landslide was a large; reactivated landslide with a scale reached to 520 Mm3, which could result in catastrophic consequences if it slipped down to nearby residential areas.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42007273), the “Belt & Road" international cooperation team for the “Light of West” program of CAS (Su Lijun), Special Assistant Researcher Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhao Bo), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M673292, 2021T140650) and the IMHE Youth S&T Foundation (SDS-QN-2106). The authors express their gratitude for this financial assistance.

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

    Bo Zhao & Lijun Su

  2. Sichuan Institute of Geological Engineering Investigation Group Co, Ltd, Chengdu, 610072, China

    Lei Yuan, Jiangpeng Qian, Huanheng Wu, Mao Liu & Jia Li

  3. China-Pakistan Joint Research Center On Earth Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Lijun Su

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100049, China

    Lijun Su

  5. School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Xueyu Geng

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Zhao, B., Yuan, L., Geng, X. et al. Deformation characteristics of a large landslide reactivated by human activity in Wanyuan city, Sichuan Province, China. Landslides 19, 1131–1141 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-022-01853-3

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