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1、EarthandPlanetaryScienceLetters229(2004)4559www.elsevier.com/locate/epslLandslides,earthquakes,anderosionBruceD.Malamuda,*,DonaldL.Turcotteb,FaustoGuzzettic,PaolaReichenbachcaEnvironmentalMonitoringandModelingResearchGroup,DepartmentofGeography,KingsCollegeLondon,S
2、trand,London,WC2R2LS,UnitedKingdombDepartmentofGeology,UniversityofCalifornia,Davis,CA95616,USAcIRPICNR,viadellaMadonnaAlta126,Perugia06128,ItalyReceived7April2004;receivedinrevisedform6October2004;accepted12October2004Editor:V.CourtillotAbstractThispaperrelateslan
3、dslideinventoriestoerosionratesandprovidesquantitativeestimatesofthelandslidehazardassociatedwithearthquakes.Wedothisbyutilizingathree-parameterinverse-gammadistribution,whichfitsthefrequencyareastatisticsofthreesubstantiallydcompleteTlandslide-eventinventories.Aco
4、nsequenceofthisgeneraldistributionisthatalandslide-eventmagnitudemL=logNLTcanbeintroduced,whereNLTisthetotalnumberoflandslidesassociatedwiththelandslideevent.Usingthisgeneraldistribution,landslide-eventmagnitudesmLcanbeobtainedfromincompletelandslideinventories,and
5、thetotalareaandvolumeofassociatedlandslides,aswellastheareaandvolumeofthemaximumlandslides,canbedirectlyrelatedtothelandslide-eventmagnitude.Usingestimatedrecurrenceintervalsforthreelandslideeventsandthetimespanfortwohistoricalinventories,weestimateregionalerosionr
6、atesassociatedwithlandslidesas1typically0.12.5mmyear.Wenextgiveanempiricalcorrelationbetweentheearthquakemagnitude,associatedlandslide-eventmagnitude,andthetotalvolumeofassociatedlandslides.Usingthesecorrelations,weestimatethattheminimumearthquakemagnitudesthatwil
7、lgeneratelandslidesisM=4.3F0.4.Finally,usingGutenbergRichterfrequency-magnitudestatisticsforregionalseismicity,werelatetheintensityofseismicityinanareaandthemagnitudeofthelargestregionalearthquakestoerosionrates.Wefindthattypicalseismicallyinducederosionratesinacti
8、vesubductionzonesare0.27mm11yearandadjacenttoplateboundarystrike-slipfaultzonesare0.010.7mmyear.D2004ElsevierB.V.Allrightsreserved.Keywords:lan