Observations from the large, rapid Yigong rock slide – debris avalanche, southeast Tibet

The Yigong rock slide – debris avalanche (YRA), which occurred on 9 April 2000, received worldwide attention as one of the largest nonseismic landslides in recent years, with a volume of 0.3 × 109 ...

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