title: The Vulnerability of People to Landslides: A Case Study on the Relationship between the Casualties and Volume of Landslides in China.
abstract: The lack of a detailed landslide inventory makes research on the vulnerability of people to landslides highly limited. In this paper, the authors collect information on the landslides that have caused casualties in China, and established theLandslides Casualties Inventory of China. 100 landslide cases from 2003 to 2012 were utilized to develop an empirical relationship between the volume of a landslide event and the casualties caused by the occurrence of the event. The error bars were used to describe the uncertainty of casualties resulting from landslides and to establish a threshold curve of casualties caused by landslides in China. The threshold curve was then applied to the landslide cases occurred in 2013 and 2014. The validation results show that the estimated casualties of the threshold curve were in good agreement with the real casualties with a small deviation. Therefore, the threshold curve can be used for estimating potential casualties and landslide vulnerability, which is meaningful for emergency rescue operations after landslides occurred and for risk assessment research.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. linqigen@mail.bnu.edu.cn.|Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. linqigen@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qigen
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. wy@bnu.edu.cn.|Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. wy@bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. liutianxue@mail.bnu.edu.cn.|Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. liutianxue@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Tianxue
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Zhuyingqi@mail.bnu.edu.cn.|Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Zhuyingqi@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yingqi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster of Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. suiqi@mail.bnu.edu.cn.|Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. suiqi@mail.bnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Sui
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D055876:Landslides / Q000401:mortality* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment
keywords: China; casualties; landslide; uncertainty; volume; vulnerability