Local rainfall thresholds for forecasting landslide occurrence: Taipingshan landslide triggered by Typhoon Saola

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• 作者：Ming-Chien Chung ; Chih-Hao Tan ; Chien-Hsin Chen
• 关键词：Landslide ; Critical rainfall threshold ; Typhoon Saola ; Taipingshan
• 刊名：Landslides
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：14
• 期：1
• 页码：19-33
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• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Natural Hazards; Geography, general; Agriculture; Civil Engineering;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1612-5118
• 卷排序：14

文摘

This paper presents a case study of the Taipingshan landslide, which was triggered by Typhoon Saola in 2012. Taipingshan villa is one of the most famous scenic locations within the Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area in northern Taiwan. Since the early 1990s, evidence of recent landslide activity appeared throughout the Taipingshan villa and included features such as tension cracks, ground settlement, and cracking in manmade structures. In response, a series of geological investigations and in-site/laboratory tests were conducted in 2010 to estimate slope stability and predict critical rainfall thresholds (event accumulated rainfall) for landslide activity. Results revealed that the critical rainfall threshold for the Taipingshan National Forest Recreation Area is 1765 mm. In 2012, that threshold was tested when Typhoon Saola brought tremendous rainfall to northern and eastern Taiwan and triggered activity along the main scarp of sliding mass B located near the History Exhibition Hall. According to in situ extensometer readings and on-site precipitation data, the extensometer was severed at an accumulated rainfall 1694 mm. Field monitoring data during the typhoon event are in good agreement with the rainfall threshold. These preliminary results suggest that the threshold may be useful for assessing the rainfall threshold of other landslides and a good reference for establishing early warning systems for landslides.