Geophysical features of shallow landslides induced by the 2015 Kanto-Tohoku heavy rain in Kanuma city, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

• Published in: Landslides Vol. 16; no. 12; pp. 2469 - 2483
• Main Authors: Okada, Yasuhiko, Konishi, Chisato
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Area; Atmospheric precipitations; Bulk density; Civil Engineering; Cone penetration tests; Correlation analysis; Data acquisition; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earthquake damage; Electrical resistivity; Environmental risk; Flood damage; Flooding; Geography; Geophysical methods; Geophysical surveys; Geophysics; Heavy precipitation; Heavy rainfall; Hurricanes; Landslides; Landslides & mudslides; Longitude; Meteorological data; Monthly rainfall; Natural Hazards; Observatories; Physical properties; Polls & surveys; Precipitation; Rain; Rainfall; Residential density; Rivers; S waves; Satellite observation; Seismic surveys; Seismic velocities; Soil; Soil depth; Soil physical properties; Soil properties; Soil sampling; Soils; Surveying; Technical Note; Topsoil; Typhoons; Wave velocity; Japan; Electrical resistivity; S-wave velocity; Soil depth; Rainfall-induced shallow landslides

Heavy precipitation accompanied by a typhoon and a seasonal rain front fell over the main island of Japan on 9–11 September 2015, causing severe damage due to landslides and river flooding. In the Kanto and Tohoku regions, some automated meteorological data acquisition system observatories recorded...