'Khait' is a transliteration from Russian: Хаит ; local modern spelling: Hoit (Tajik: Ҳоит ).
Numerous kishlaks in the Yasman River valley were overwhelmed by the loessflowslide the swept down the whole length of the valley.
This was a Mw=7.4 event on 10th July 1949 in the Tien Shan mountains of what is now Tajikistan, but was then the Soviet Union. The landslide was triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake and buried 33 villages and has by some estimates killed 28,000 people. The Khait or Hoit landslide occurred on July 10, 1949 in the Hoit district in the Gharm Oblast in the Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. This was a Mw=7.4 event on 10th July 1949 in the Tien Shan mountains of what is now Tajikistan, but was then the Soviet Union. In the Yasman valley hundreds of loess landslides coalesced to form a massive …
These landslides involved widespread rock-slope failure as well as large numbers of flowslides in loess that mantles the steep slopes of the region. 'Khait' is a transliteration from Russian: Хаит; local modern spelling: Hoit (Tajik: Ҳоит).
245 MmNow at Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6.We use cookies to help provide and enhance our service and tailor content and ads. (2009). The adjacent valleys of Yasman and Khait were the most affected by these earthquake-induced landslides. In July 1949, the M7.4 Khait earthquake triggered many hundreds of landslides in a mountainous region near the southern limit of the Tien Shan Mountains, central Tajikistan. In the Yasman valley hundreds of loess landslides coalesced to form a massive loess flow (est. One such natural catastrophe occurred in July of 1949, when the 7.4 magnitude Khait Earthquake triggered hundreds of landslides near the southern limits of the Tien Shan ranges in central Tajikistan.
In July 1949, the M7.4 Khait earthquake triggered many hundreds of landslides in a mountainous region near the southern limit of the Tien Shan Mountains, central Tajikistan. The town of Khait (modern spelling Hoit (Tajik: Ҳоит)) and the village of Khisorak were almost completely destroyed by the Khait landslide. A key realisation of this work for me has been that earthquake-triggered slides cause a very substantial proportional (probably in fact the majority) of fatalities is mass movement events. (2009 in press).
2009) re-examining the 1960 Huascaran rock avalanche in Peru. These landslides involved widespread rock-slope failure as well as large numbers of flowslides in loess that mantles the steep slopes of the region. One significant but until now slightly elusive such event has been the 1949 Khait earthquake. Most of the fatalities were caused by numerous landslides triggered by the earthquake.
A re-examination of the mechanism and human impact of catastrophic mass flows originating on Nevado Huascarán, Cordillera Blanca, Peru in 1962 and 1970 On the loss of life in landslides during the 1949 Khait earthquake ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.Landslides triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake, Tajikistan, and associated loss of lifeCopyright © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.ScienceDirect ® is a registered trademark of Elsevier B.V. Steve and his colleagues have also just published a similar paper (Evans et al.
Landslides triggered by the 1949 Khait Earthquake, Tajikistan, and associated loss of life Evans, S., Bishop, N., Fidel Smoll, L., Valderrama Murillo, P., Delaney, K., & Oliver-Smith, A. In July 1949, the M7.4 Khait earthquake triggered many hundreds of landslides in a mountainous region near the southern limit of the Tien Shan Mountains, central Tajikistan. Evans, S., Roberts, N., Ischuk, A., Delaney, K., Morozova, G., & Tutubalina, O.
The timing and location of this event, soon after the war in an area about which the Soviet Union was very secretive, has meant that it has been very difficult to …
13 September 2009 Regular readers will know that one of my interests lies in trying to get a better understanding of the loss of life associated with landslides. For centuries, the mountainous belt running through Central Asia has witnessed a large number of disasters involving earthquake-triggered landslides. In the area of maximum felt intensity (>IX) most kishlaks were completely destroyed.
However, some rather speculative reports have suggested that the impacts were very large – for example An article in press in the journal Engineering Geology, by Steve Evans and colleagues (Evans First, they look at the Khait landslide (termed in the paper as a rockslide / loess flow), which is still clearly visible in the landscape, even on the low resolution Google Earth imagery available for this area:In conclusion, this is a very important contribution, filling in another gap in our understanding of previous landslide impacts. By continuing you agree to the Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. or its licensors or contributors. In 1949, the M=7.4 Khait earthquake in Northern Tajikistan produced one of the most destructive earthquake-triggered landslide events in human history (until that time, according to Leonov, 1960).
For that reason, work to re-examine past seismically-driven events is very welcome, helping us to get a much better understanding of the range of processes and impacts in these events.One significant but until now slightly elusive such event has been the 1949 Khait earthquake.
In July 1949, the M7.4 Khait earthquake triggered many hundreds of landslides in a mountainous region near the southern limit of the Tien Shan Mountains, central Tajikistan.
Earthquake-triggered landslides are a major geological hazard in Central Asia.
This will be the topic of an upcoming post. Other kishlaks were destroyed by loess flowslides in the lower Obi-Kabud …
The Khait or Hoit landslide occurred on July 10, 1949 in the Hoit district in the Gharm Oblast in the Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately our understanding of seismically-driven landslides, and their impacts, remains poor, certainly in comparison with rainfall induced slides. vol.