Development characteristics and river blocking outburst analysis of Shadong landslide in the upper reaches of Jinsha River

The Shadong landslide, located in the Jinsha suture belt, exhibits significant signs of deformation. It is a high risk of developing into a disaster chain of landslide, river blockage, and flood, posing a serious threat to major engineering construction, transportation facilities, and people's lives and property. In this study, multi-source remote sensing dynamic monitoring, engineering geological survey, and numerical simulation were used to analyze the deformation characteristics and explore the risk of river blocking outburst of the Shadong landslide. The results show that the Shadong landslide is a giant landslide with a volume of approximately 23045×104 m3. The landslide is currently in the stage of creep deformation, with continuous deformation from 2018 to 2023. The reactivation deformation area of the landslide is mainly concentrated at the front edge of the slope, and the deformation on the downstream side is stronger than that on the upstream side. The Shadong landslide slides along the bedrock cove