Rapid assessment of seismic landslide zones

Landslide susceptibility assessment in active seismic zone - With a case study of Wenchuan

The Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake, occurred on 12 May 2008 in Sichuan Province, caused enormous property damages and human casualties. Right now, the secondary disasters caused by strong earthquake, especially landslides, have drawn much attention in the affected area. For this reason, it is necessary to research on susceptibility assessment in Wenchuan which is helpful to decrease landslide damag...

Displacement-based Rapid Seismic Assessment Procedure for Building Structures

Dynamics of the Wulong landslide revealed by broadband seismic records

The catastrophic Wulong landslide occurred at 14:51 (Beijing time, UTC+8) on 5 June 2009, in Wulong Prefecture, Southwest China. This rockslide occurred in a complex topographic environment. Seismic signals generated by this event were recorded by the seismic network deployed in the surrounding area, and long-period signals were extracted from 8 broadband seismic stations within 250 km to obtai...

Landslide basal friction as measured by seismic waves

[1] Dynamical predictions of landslide runout require measurements of the basal friction. Here we present the first seismically determined bounds on the frictional coefficients for three large volcanic landslides. The three landslides (Bezymianny, Russia 1956, Sheveluch, Russia 1964 and Mount St. Helens, USA 1980) have masses that vary by a factor of 5 and were all followed immediately by erupt...

Disaster Management and Identification of Safe and Hazardous Landslide Zones in Rural Areas of Sarwabad County

Iran's rural settlements, in spite of their comprehensive and multi-faceted developments in the last decades, are still considered to be among the settlements faced with crucial challenges in the face of environmental hazards. As a result, prearrangement for upcoming events and disasters, as well as paying attention to the management of rural disaster in dealing with particularly natural events...