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Landslides triggered by the 6 September 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido, Japan: an updated inventory and retrospective hazard assessment

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On September 6, 2018, an Mw 6.6 earthquake occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, triggering massive landslides. Based on the 0.3 m-resolution Pleiades-1 satellite image on the Google Earth platform, we constructed an updated co-seismic landslide inventory for this event, which permitted to map 12,586 landslides. These slope failures are featured by a large number, wide spread, large scales, and local dense distribution. Considering nine influence factors, i.e. elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, curvature, distance to road, distance to river, distance to the epicenter, lithology, and topography, the logistic regression model was applied to carry out a retrospective hazard assessment of earthquake-triggered landslides in the affected area, and the rationality of such prediction was verified by the real landslides mapped. Results show that the landslide hazard evaluation map is in good agreement with the actual landslide distribution. The success rate of the hazard assessment map is 87.0% compared to training samples, and 86.5% compared to testing samples, respectively. The updated landslide inventory is a useful complement to the existing landslide inventory maps and the landslide hazard assessment map is helpful for landslide disaster prevention and reduction and reconstruction planning in the affected area.

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41807267 and 41661144037), and the Natural Science Research Project of the Colleges and Universities in Anhui Province (KJ2018A0075).

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  1. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, 232001, Anhui, China

    Yulong Cui, Pengpeng Bao & Gui Fu

  2. National Institute of Natural Hazards, Ministry of Emergency Management of China (former Institute of Crustal Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration), 100085, Beijing, China

    Chong Xu

  3. Key Laboratory of Active Tectonics and Volcano, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, 100029, China

    Siyuan Ma

  4. Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, Zhejiang, China

    Jun Zheng

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Cui, Y., Bao, P., Xu, C. et al. Landslides triggered by the 6 September 2018 Mw 6.6 Hokkaido, Japan: an updated inventory and retrospective hazard assessment. Earth Sci Inform 14, 247–258 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-020-00544-8

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