Seismic Response of a Mountain Ridge Prone to Landsliding

Autor: Jui Ming Chang, Arnaud Burtin, Niels Hovius, Patrick Meunier, Céline Gélis, Claire Rault, Odin Marc, Wei-An Chao, Yih-Min Wu, Tz-Shin Lai
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Observatoire Volcanologique et Sismologique de Guadeloupe (OVSG), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, National Taiwan University [Taiwan] (NTU), German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam (GFZ)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Seismological Society of America, 2020, 110 (6), pp.3004-3020. ⟨10.1785/0120190127⟩
ISSN: 0037-1106
DOI: 10.1785/0120190127⟩
Popis: During an earthquake, site effects can play an important role in triggering landslides. To document the seismic response of steep hillslopes, we deployed broadband seismometers across a mountain ridge in Taiwan, in an area with a high earthquake-induced landslide hazard. The ridge has a simple, representative shape, and landslides have previously occurred there. Our seismometer array has recorded continuously during more than 1 yr, with both ambient-noise and regional moderate earthquakes as sources. Processing horizontal and vertical signal components, we show that the ridge has a complex response, which we attribute to the combined effects of the subsurface geology and the topographic geometry. Amplification and directionality of ground motion are observed both high and low on the ridge, giving rise to localized, elevated, earthquake-induced landslide hazard. Our database contains earthquakes with mostly similar locations, making it difficult to determine the effect of earthquake back azimuth on the ridge response. A part of the ridge response, possibly due to topographic effects, seems to be explained by a model derived from a frequency scale curvature proxy at low frequency. If correct, this would be a promising first step toward improving local ground-motion estimation in mountain areas. However, the definition of appropriate scaling parameters of site effects based on geophysical measurements, for use in regional and global landslide hazard equations applicable to mountain areas with substantial regolith thickness, remains a significant challenge.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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