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Earthquake-Induced Landslides

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2633

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Martín Jesús Rodríguez-Peces

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Department of Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Faculty of Geological Sciences, University Complutense of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: engineering geology; landslides; rockfalls; earthquakes; active tectonics
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Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to present this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, “Earthquake-Induced Landslides”. In recent years, significant progress has been made in studying co-seismic landslides. This progress has expanded the knowledge of landslide processes. It is, therefore, necessary to summarize, share and disseminate the latest knowledge and expertise.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Compilation of many more complete seismic landslide inventories, as well as retrospective inventories.
  • Improvement of regional-scale assessments of seismic landslide susceptibility and hazards.
  • Development of new methods for the regional scale analysis of hazards from large catastrophic landslides.
  • Novel instruments for earthquake-induced landslide monitoring.
  • Remote sensing applications in earthquake-induced landslides.
  • Combination of several methods and instruments for the better understanding of earthquake-induced landslide processes.
  • Earthquake-induced landslide modelling.

Dr. Martín Jesús Rodríguez-Peces
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • landslide
  • rockfall
  • earthquake
  • landslide inventories
  • landslide prediction
  • monitoring
  • remote sensing
  • modelling

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Role of Antecedent Rainfall in the Earthquake-Triggered Shallow Landslides Involving Unsaturated Slope Covers
by Salvatore Martino, Gian Marco Marmoni, Matteo Fiorucci, Antonio Francesco Ceci, Marco Emanuele Discenza, Javad Rouhi and Davit Tedoradze
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(6), 2917; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12062917 - 12 Mar 2022
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Different soil cover saturation has a significant effect in influencing slope stability conditions of weathered covers under earthquake-induced shaking. Here we analyze the Montecilfone, Italy (2018), case history, an Mw 5.1 earthquake that revealed an exceptionality in the spatial distribution of the surveyed [...] Read more.
Different soil cover saturation has a significant effect in influencing slope stability conditions of weathered covers under earthquake-induced shaking. Here we analyze the Montecilfone, Italy (2018), case history, an Mw 5.1 earthquake that revealed an exceptionality in the spatial distribution of the surveyed earthquake-induced shallow landslides. This feature can be justified as intense rainfall occurred in the epicentral area before the seismic event, contributing to increasing the saturation and the weight of the soil covers. To verify the effective influence of antecedent rainfall as a preparatory factor in the earthquake triggering of soil covers, stability conditions for both static and dynamic scenarios were validated by reconstructing different saturation conditions related to a rainfall event that occurred before the earthquake. Soil cover surveying was performed within a 150 km2 area to output its spatial distribution in terms of their compositional features and thickness, whose variability was constrained through empirical models. Based on laboratory test results, 1D infiltration numerical models were performed through the Hydrus-1D free domain software to estimate the saturation degree of the soil cover and the water infiltration depth, taking as a reference the intensity of the rainfall event. Soil cover sequential charts of water content were obtained at different depths and times up to those recorded at the time of earthquake occurrence by the performed numerical modelling. Safety factors (SFs) of the slope covers were quantified assuming an unsaturated condition in the slope stability equation. The outputs reveal that pore pressure spatial distribution in the unsaturated medium infers on the earthquake-induced scenario of shallow landsliding, demonstrating its role as a preparatory factor for earthquake-induced shallow landslides. Full article
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