Numerical Simulation of Failure Process of the Qianjiangping Landslide Triggered by Water Level Rise and Rainfall in the Three Gorges Reservoir, China

An evolution model of large consequent bedding rockslides, with particular reference to the Jiweishan rockslide in Southwest China

“…Another example is the 2003 Qianjiangping landslide which occurred shortly after the water level rose to 135 m following the first impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir. This incident destroyed 346 houses, took 24 lives and left 1200 people homeless (Yang et al, 2013). A 40 cm-thick layer of carbonaceous shale was found along the failure surface on the main scarp after this landslide (Wang et al, 2004).…”