Unexpected spatial inequality of fatal landslide impacts

Communications Earth & Environment, Published online: 23 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03850-z

Landslide fatalities vary across regions, influenced by both social capacity and terrain, with human and environmental factors contributing together to these differences, according to machine learning and numerical modeling analysis of fatal landslides in China between 2010 and 2025.