Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1195-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-14-1195-2014
Research article
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21 May 2014
Research article |  | 21 May 2014

Mechanism of the Donghekou landslide triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake revealed by discrete element modeling

R.-M. Yuan, C.-L. Tang, J.-C. Hu, and X.-W. Xu

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