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- Title
Analysis of seismic hazard in landslide-prone regions: criteria and example for an area of Daunia (southern Italy).
- Authors
Del Gaudio, V.; Pierri, P.; Calcagnile, G.
- Abstract
In relation to the assessment of earthquake-induced landslide hazard, this paper discusses general principles and describes implementation criteria for seismic hazard estimates in landslide-prone regions. These criteria were worked out during the preparation of a hazard map belonging to the official Italian geological cartography and they are proposed as guidelines for future compilation of similar maps. In the presented case study, we used a procedure for the assessment of seismic hazard impact on slope stability adopting Arias intensity Ia as seismic shaking parameter and critical acceleration a as parameter representing slope strength to failures induced by seismic shaking. According to this procedure, after a preliminary comparison of estimated historical maximum values of Ia with values proposed in literature as landslide-triggering thresholds, a probabilistic approach, based on the Newmark's model, is adopted: it allows to estimate the minimum critical acceleration a required for a slope to keep under a prefixed value, the probability of failures induced by seismic shakings expected in a given time interval. In this way, one can prepare seismic hazard maps where seismic shaking is expressed in an indirect way through a parameter (the critical acceleration) representing the 'strength' that seismic shakings mobilise in slope materials (strength demand) with a prefixed exceedance probability. This approach was applied to an area of Daunia (Apulia-southern Italy) affected by frequent landslide phenomena. The obtained results indicate that shakings with a significant slope destabilisation potential can be expected particularly in the north-western part of the area, which is exposed to the seismic activity of Apennine tectonic structures.
- Subjects
PUGLIA (Italy); ITALY; LANDSLIDE hazard analysis; SEISMIC wave studies; GEOLOGICAL mapping; PLATE tectonics
- Publication
Natural Hazards, 2012, Vol 61, Issue 1, p203
- ISSN
0921-030X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11069-011-9886-5