Abstract:Landslides,defined as the movement of a mass of rock,debris or earth down a slope,can be triggered by a variety of external stimulus,such as intense rainfall,earthquake shaking,water level change,storm waves,rapid stream erosion or some human activities that cause a rapid increase in shear stress or decrease in shear strength of slope-forming materials. They can result in enormous casualties and huge economic losses in mountainous regions. Based on the published records of landslides,it is found that Sichuan Province takes up the highest percent in China. This paper presents a landslide-inventory-based framework for systematic landslide hazard analysis by employing historical landslide data in Sichuan Province,coupling with geological,geomorphologic,climatic,and rainfall data. Based on 400 landslide data from 1949 to 2001,the seasonal distributions of landslides are established and compared with the seasonal rainfall variation. The cumulative fatalities and injuries caused by landslides increase with the cumulative rainfall in Sichuan Province,indicating a strong correlation between rainfall and landslide consequences. The frequency-volume relationship for landslide in Sichuan has been considered. Based on previous study,the cell size is selected as logarithmic. While the data available for analysis is only 89,the relationship is not sufficiently representative. However,it is obvious that it has the same distribution as Hong Kong,except that the scale of landslides is different:most of the reported landslides have volume exceeding 100 000 m3,and the majority of the landslides in Hong Kong have a volume less than 500 m3. In addition,the relationship in Hong Kong is updated on the basis of landslide data from 1992–2001. And in the analysis,the data that just has a dim range is not included and for those that have clear range,the average values are used. The average annual fatality and injury rates in Sichuan Province caused by landslide are 49.88% and 28.06%,respectively.