Failure Mechanism and Kinematics of the Deadly September 28^th 2016 Sucun Landslide, Suichang, Zhejiang, China

Table 1

The characteristics of different areas of the Sucun rockslide avalanche.

Landslide area	Subarea	Location	Length (m)	Width (m)	Volume (m^3)	Gradient (°)	Area (m^2)
Source area	Accumulation area	Head	120	70–150	135,000	60–70	10,000
	Collapse area	Front part of the landslide	100	100	205,000	50–60	11,000
Transposition area		Center of the landslide	550	100–260	270,000	10–25	99,000
Deposition area		Toe of the landslide	200	230–430	930,000	0–10	66,000
Potential area	I	Upper western side of the source area	320	70–90	96,000	25–30	24,000
	II	Upper eastern side of the source area	150	60–80	105,000	28–35	10,500
	III	Upper eastern side of the transposition area	100	80–100	72,500	15–25	9,000
	IV	Lower part of the eastern side of the transposition area	280	50–120	179,200	10–25	22,400