Retraction Note to: Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment (2020) 79:4107–4121 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10064-020-01841-8

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this Article due to significant overlap with a previously published article (Chen et al. 2019).

Chen, Y., Irfan, M., Uchimura, T and Dou, J. agree to this retraction. Meng, Q. has not responded to any correspondence from the Editor/Publisher about this retraction.