Abstract

Many landslides occurred in Kamikashiwazaki district in the northern part of Tochigi prefecture causing by the Great East Japan earthquake which is magnitude 9.0 that produced approximately 24 km in depth of southeast approximately 130 km of Ojika Peninsula as seismic center on March 11, 2011. The landslide phenomena produce main scarps of landslide head occurring on 3-5 m length of behind location from the top of slope of relative height approximately 30 m and slope incline 30° facing west direction. Most of sliding soil mass is not seen in the generating landslide source area. Landslides are observed pumice layer showing in the high liquidity in the foot of these slopes. The landslide phenomena are high-speed and formed long-distance movement. These landslides have the sliding topography on the neighborhood slopes to show the trace that the landslide generated in the past.

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