Abstract
A large number of landslides induced by the 2004 Mid Niigata Prefecture earthquake resulted in the closure of 233 segments of national and prefectural routes in Higashiyama mountain district, and 61 localities were completely isolated. Since railway and road facilities follow closely the motion of soils, damage to these facilities has to be discussed in terms of soil deformations that they experienced. The example of Kizawa tunnel shows that even relatively small soil deformations can be large enough to cause serious cracking of tunnel lining.
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The authors would like to express hereby their deep sympathy to the people affected by the devastating earthquake. The members are also grateful to Mr. Honda and Mr. Kondo at the Division of Public Works, Niigata, Prefecture, for providing the authors with the necessary information about tunnels in Higashiyama mountain district
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Konagai, K., Numada, M., Zafeirakos, A. et al. An example of landslide-inflicted damage to tunnel in the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture earthquake. Landslides 2, 159–163 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-005-0057-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-005-0057-1