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Research article
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22 May 2017
Research article |
| 22 May 2017
Anomalous winter-snow-amplified earthquake-induced disaster of the 2015 Langtang avalanche in Nepal
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
Japan
Hiroshi Inoue
Disaster Risk Research Unit, National Research Institute for Earth
Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan
Takeki Izumi
Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan
University, Hachioji, Japan
Satoru Yamaguchi
Snow and Ice Research Center, National Research Institute for Earth
Science and Disaster Resilience, Nagaoka, Japan
Ayako Sadakane
Langtang Plan, Kamakura, Japan
Sojiro Sunako
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
Japan
Kouichi Nishimura
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
Japan
Walter W. Immerzeel
Department of Physical Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht
University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Khumaltar,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Joseph M. Shea
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Khumaltar,
Kathmandu, Nepal
Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Canada
Rijan B. Kayastha
School of Science, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal
Takanobu Sawagaki
Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
David F. Breashears
GlacierWorks, Marblehead, MA, USA
Hiroshi Yagi
Faculty of Education, Art and Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata,
Japan
Akiko Sakai
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya,
Japan
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Short summary
We create multiple DEMs from photographs taken by helicopter and UAV and reveal the deposit volumes over the Langtang village, which was destroyed by avalanches induced by the Gorkha earthquake. Estimated snow depth in the source area is consistent with anomalously large snow depths observed at a neighboring glacier. Comparing with a long-term observational data, we conclude that this anomalous winter snow amplified the disaster induced by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.
We create multiple DEMs from photographs taken by helicopter and UAV and reveal the deposit...
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