The 1979 Abbotsford Landslide, Dunedin, New Zealand: a retrospective look at its nature and causes

The Abbotsford Landslide of 8 August 1979 occurred in an urban area of Dunedin, New Zealand, causing much damage to houses and urban infrastructure. Rapid failure occurred after weeks of preliminary movements, resulting in the formation of a approximately 5 million m³ block slide. It caused the loss of 69 houses, with an overall cost of about NZ $10–13 million. After several months of investigations, a commission of inquiry found that unfavorable geology (weak clay layers in a 7°-dip slope) was the underlying cause of the landslide. An old sand quarry at the toe of the slope and a leaking water main above the slide area were found to be man-made factors that contributed to the failure. Slope stability analysis showed that after sand excavation (approximately 300,000 m³), the water table had to rise 0.3 m less for failure to occur. Because the quarry closed 10 years before the landslide occurred, it is concluded that a long-term rise in groundwater levels because of the increased rainfall over the previous decade and leakage from the water main controlled the timing of the failure and, in this sense, are considered to have triggered the landslide.     

Analysis of the seismic vulnerability and the structural characteristics of houses in Chinese rural areas

Disastrous earthquakes brought extensive damage to rural houses not designed to resist seismic movements in China. So far, the paucity of nation-wide data on rural houses, especially on their structural features, has prevented a comprehensive national assessment of the earthquake vulnerability of rural areas. This paper estimates the proportion of rural houses in each of five different structural groups in county-level administration units in China with downscaling methods and assesses the seismic vulnerability of counties paying attention to the seismic intensity and social–economic characteristics of different areas. A housing damage index is constructed with the expected amount and ratio of damaged houses in earthquakes, based on which four vulnerability levels are specified for each county-level unit. The results show that highly vulnerable and vulnerable counties account for 7.9 % and 10.7 % of all, respectively. Based on the distribution of these counties, the critical factors of weakness in different regions, such as seismic intensity, housing quality and population density, are analyzed, and risk reduction strategies are discussed.     

基于高精度图像识别的堆积体粒径分析

高位滑坡具有高隐蔽特性,失稳破坏后往往转化为流动性强大的碎屑流,成灾时间短暂且破坏性极强。由于碎屑流本质为碎裂岩体在重力作用下的高速远程运动,研究其堆积体的粒径分布情况用以分析灾害过程,对碎屑流危害预测具有重要意义。基于该认识,本文选用PCAS系统分析碎屑流堆积体影像数据,并基于此结果开展后续分析。本文以2017年贵州普洒村崩塌碎屑流为研究案例,步骤如下:首先,结合现场调查,拍摄无人机航拍图像;随后,统计灾害前后受灾房屋情况;最后,使用PCAS系统开展堆积体图像识别,并分析堆积体粒径分布情况以及分析粒径分布与房屋破坏之间的关系;研究可知:（1）PCAS系统识别堆积体颗粒效果好,精度高。（2）随着碎屑流的运移,堆积物小粒径占比增加。（3）大粒径出现了双峰分布,但总体上呈减少趋势。（4）在横向分布上,其一致性越来越优。（5）堆积体房屋具有"拦粗排细"的作用。综上可知,运用PCAS图像识别分析碎屑流粒径分布具有高效可靠的特点,能够在堆积体粒径识别领域发挥一定积极作用。     

2013年7月10日四川省都江堰三溪村五里坡特大滑坡灾害遥感调查及成因机制浅析

2013年7月10日上午10时30分左右,四川省都江堰市中兴镇三溪村五里坡发生大规模山体滑坡。约264104m3的山体在前期降雨的影响下启动,在短短2min内将滑坡体下方约500m处的11户农家乐吞噬,造成44人死亡, 117人失踪,大量农户房屋受损。本文采用三期遥感数据源,分别对滑坡发生前的孕灾环境条件、滑坡早期变形特征及滑后发育特征等内容进行解译; 同时结合无人机航空摄影、地形测绘及地面调查手段,对滑坡发育的地层岩性、结构面产状、节理发育情况等内容进行现场验证; 在此基础上对滑坡成因机制及运动破坏模式进行分析。结果表明,五里坡滑坡是在较好的临空条件和结构面的有效组合条件下,受强降雨条件激发形成的灾害。在持续强降雨作用下,与母岩分割开来的滑动块体,在动水压力作用下,沿底层滑面向临空方向滑动。在越过前缘约36m高的陡坎后,运动方式转变为崩滑运动,滑坡体经瞬间加速并撞击碎裂化,形成高速运动的滑坡碎屑流。在此过程中,中途伴随着洪水汇入,滑坡碎屑流又进一步转化为泥石流,最终形成滑坡-碎屑流-泥石流的链式成灾模式。其运动和破坏模式较为典型,值得深入研究。     

Hazard and risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslides—case study

Landslides as secondary seismic effects are causing some patterns of soil failure that are often considered among the most destructive ones. In fact, the impact from triggered landslides has sometimes exceeded damage directly related to strong shaking and fault rupture. The objective of this research study is landslide hazard and risk assessment considering different water saturation and earthquake scenarios, for a selected area in a sub-urban hilly part of Skopje—the capital of Macedonia. The final product is represented by digital maps of expected permanent displacements for a defined earthquake scenario, in different water saturation conditions of the instable soil layer. Qualitative landslide risk assessment is performed taking into consideration the exposure map of the habitants and local road of the area. As to the target area, it can be concluded that it has the potential for instability that, under certain scenarios, could result in economic and social damage (vulnerability of individual houses, vulnerability of infrastructure and alike). The results from this study referring to potentially affected population and infrastructure present solid base for preventive mitigation activities for reducing the consequences of geotechnical hazards in Skopje City associated with earthquakes.     

宁夏羊场湾煤矿浅埋煤层开采地面塌陷发育规律及形成机理

以宁夏羊场湾煤矿Y110207工作面为研究对象,采用无人机遥感技术、野外调查与有限差分软件模拟方法研究浅埋煤层开采的地面塌陷类型、发育规律及其形成机理。(1)浅埋煤层开采地面塌陷以地表裂缝发育为主,地表破坏严重。(2)平行切眼裂缝间隔性出现,展布于整个工作面内,间隔距离为10～120m,局部裂缝形成错台高度约为15cm。平行顺槽裂缝为拉张型裂缝,发育在顺槽至外围一定范围。(3)采煤活动导致地下形成采空区,上覆岩层发生移动破坏,破坏区分为剪切破坏区、拉张破坏区及剪-拉破坏区,分别对压应力区、拉应力区和压-拉转化区。(4)当应力扰动传递至地表,应力值超过覆盖层抗拉强度时地表产生裂缝。随着工作面推进,覆岩内部裂缝带上行裂缝与地表下行裂缝贯通,形成错台。研究成果丰富了该区浅埋煤层的地面塌陷理论知识,为地面塌陷防治提供了理论依据。     

开采引起的含水层失水对地表下沉的影响

为了改善矿区开采沉陷预计精度,解释华东矿区地表下沉系数大于1的原因,减小采动损害,本文基于现场钻孔水位动态观测结果,获得了覆岩破坏与含水层水位变化的3种对应关系。根据含水层失水后固相颗粒有效应力增加引起岩土体孔隙比的变化,建立了含水层失水固结沉降机理,利用叠加原理,导出了地下开采与含水层失水共同引起的地面沉降计算方法。研究实例表明,失水下沉占煤层开采下沉的25%。      

地下水对工程和环境的作用

地下水对上程建设和地质环境的作用与影响日趋显著,人们认识日益深化。实践表明,这类问题不完伞是纯水文地质问题。实质上,它是介乎于水文地质与工程地质之间,暂定名为工程水文地质学。专门进行在工程建设和环境地质中由于地下水作用而产生的各类工程地质问题或水文地质问题。为充分阐明问题,本文从水与岩土相互作用、基坑排水与潜蚀流沙、地基沉降与黄土湿陷、道路冻害与隧道涌水、矿抗突水与竖井破坏、坝基渗漏与稳定、坝基抗滑稳定以及与地下水有关的地质灾害问题等方面,进行了举例阐述,初步论证了重要性、问题和某些实质。目的在于,向人们揭示一个值得研究的方向,并给予充分的重视。     

Spatial dependencies in wind-related housing damage

This article examines the spatial dependence among housing losses due to tornadoes using data from the May 1999 Oklahoma City tornado. In order to examine the existence of spatial dependence and its impacts on the damage analysis, we compare an estimation based on a traditional ordinary least square model with the general spatial model. The results show that housing damage in this disaster area is highly correlated. Monetary losses not only depend on the tornado that struck residences, but are related to the damage magnitudes of neighboring houses. Average losses as well as the loss ratio increase with the Fujita Scale damage rating. We conclude that the general spatial model provides unbiased estimates compared to the ordinary least square model. In order to construct appropriate home insurance policies for tornado disasters or to improve the damage resistance capabilities of houses, it is necessary for insurance underwriters and builders to consider spatial correlation of tornado damage.

安溪县剑斗镇湖丘角落地面塌陷成因分析

2002年6月30日，福建省安溪县剑斗镇湖丘角落发生地面塌陷，造成房屋倒塌，人员伤亡。通过对该区环境地质条件和地面塌陷分布规律的分析与研究认为：塌陷区内岩溶裂隙发育是形成地面塌陷地质条件；矿井对地下水的疏干这是导致地面塌陷或不均匀沉降产生地裂缝的内在动力；深部及周围石灰岩矿的开采，为岩溶洞隙充填物提供了被搬运带走的空间，使得潜蚀作用可以不断地向上扩展；强降雨是加速岩溶区地面塌陷的外部动力。     

Damage to surface structures due to underground coal mine blasting: apprehension or real cause?

Investigations were carried out at three underground coal mines in India to study the response of surface structures to underground blasting and the likelihood of damage to the structures. The structures in the vicinity of the underground blasting area were single and multistoried residential houses. The amplitudes of vibration due to underground blasting were monitored simultaneously on the ground surface near the foundation of the structures and on various floors of the structures. The vibrations were also monitored near the important surface installations. It was observed that the magnitude of vibration in structures decreased with the increase in the height of the structures. The frequency of blast vibration from underground blasting was higher than the natural frequency of the structures. Little energy was transmitted into the structures, which caused reduction in the vibration level in the structures. The reduction in the vibration levels was up to 45% in the houses. It indicates that the dominant frequency of blast vibration plays an important role in persistence of vibration and its amplification or reduction characteristics in the structures. This paper deals with the effect of the vibrations on structures/houses standing above the blasting faces in underground workings and their potential to likely damage to the structures at different Indian geo-mining conditions.     

汶川8.0级地震液化震害及特征

通过现场详细地调查,归纳总结了汶川地震液化导致的工程震害的现象、分布、规律和特征。结果表明,此次地震液化震害现象显著,位于德阳地区的3个液化区域震害严重,都江堰地区、绵阳游仙区以及江油市区的3个液化区域震害中等,其他地区轻微,液化震害分布与液化分布有一定关系,但二者有所不同;液化场地上房屋均不同程度受损,其中结构性差的房屋会直接倒塌,设有圈梁、构造柱的房屋,液化也会导致其整体倾斜、下沉、开裂;学校液化震害具有典型性,部分校区大面积液化,地裂缝纵横,地基不均匀沉降严重,主体结构开裂、倾斜,功能丧失。这次液化震害具有3个显著特征:(1)只要液化出现的地方,震害均比周围重,没有减震现象;(2)Ⅵ度区不仅有液化现象,而且有明显的液化震害;(3)液化伴随地裂缝,是构成此次地震液化震害的主因。     

Field Survey of the 1996 Irian Jaya Earthquake Tsunami in Biak Island

Runup data in Biak Island and itsnearby islets are described with discussions oftsunami magnitude and a few characteristics such aswitnessed arrival times, wave periods and wavenumbers. From an engineering viewpoint, a relationbetween inundation depth and current velocity on landis also described with relations between inundationdepth and degree of damage to houses and between sanderosion depth and current velocity in backshoreregion, based on data collected from the present andpast tsunamis.     

河南省修武县东交口新村房屋裂缝原因及

东交口新村房屋裂缝是采空区地表变形、地表水入渗冲蚀和建筑荷载等众多因素综合作用的结果,主要归纳为二：1991年前,采空区未稳定,以采空区的地表残余变形破坏为主;1991年后,采空区基本稳定,以地表水的大量人渗冲蚀破坏为主。针对房屋裂缝的原因和主要影响因素,采取地表排水、采空区深孔注浆与“离层裂隙区”浅孔注浆加固相结合的综合治理方案,取得明显成效。     

Design considerations for subsidence control

Summary Subsidence planning and control must be an integral part of mine design in order to minimize the economic impact of underground mining on the surface. Precalculation of surface deformations which may cause damage to surface structures must be performed and damage criteria must be established, if the response of structures to such movements is to be determined and the extent of damages to be assessed. In this paper the Surface Deformation Prediction System (SDPS), which can be used to predict accurately the vertical and horizontal parameters of surface movements due to underground mining, is discussed. The Subsidence Response Modelling Program (SRMP), which can be applied to evaluate the response of buildings to subsidence-induced movements, is also reviewed. Finally, an example is presented demonstrating the applicability of these techniques for subsidence design and control.     

Seismic Reflection Characteristics of Naturally-Induced Subsidence Affecting Transportation

High-resolution seismic reflections have been used effectively to investigate sinkholes formed from the dissolution of a bedded salt unit found throughout most of Central Kansas. Surface subsidence can have devastating effects on transportation structures. Roads, rails, bridges, and pipeliues can even be dramatically affected by minor ground instability. Areas susceptible to surface subsidence can put public safety at risk. Subsurface expressions significantly larger than surface depressions are consistently observed on seismic images recorded over sinkholes in Kansas. Until subsidence reaches the ground surface, failure appears to be controlled by compressional forces evidenced by faults with reverse orientation. Once a surface depression forms or dissolution of the salt slows or stops, subsidence structures are consistent with a tensional stress environment with prevalent normal faults. Detecting areas of rapid subsidence potential, prior to surface failure, is the ultimate goal of any geotechnical survey where the ground surface is susceptible to settling. Seismic reflection images have helped correlate active subsidence to dormant paleofeatures, project horizontal growth of active sinkholes based on subsurface structures, and appraise the risk of catastrophic failure.     

Fuzzy-random probabilistic analysis of rock mass responses to explosive loads

This paper addresses the effects of randomness of initial damage in a rock mass and the critical tensile strain of the rock material on its dynamic responses and damage under explosive loads. A fuzzy definition is proposed to describe the fuzzy nature of failure phenomenon in a rock mass. The initial damage of the rock mass is estimated using the longitudinal and transverse elastic wave velocities. By using statistical analysis, the initial damage of the rock mass is found having the Beta distribution. The statistical estimation of a damage state and properties of randomly damaged rock mass are evaluated by the Rosenbluth's point estimate method. In numerical calculation, an isotropic continuum damage model with the initial damage and the cumulative damage dependent on an equivalent tensile strain is suggested to model the rock mass behavior under blast loads. A Beta distribution is proposed to represent the probabilistic distribution of the damage variable of the rock mass under explosive loads. Several types of membership functions are suggested to represent the fuzziness of material failure. Based on the fuzzy–random probabilistic theory, a model including both the effects of randomness and fuzziness is proposed for the failure analysis of rock mass under explosive loads. The suggested models are coded and linked with an available computer program AUTODYN2D through its user's subroutine capacity. The fuzzy failure probability and dynamic responses of the rock mass are calculated. Numerical results are compared with those obtained from independent field tests.     

Management of Historical Seismic Data Using GIS: The Island of Ischia (Southern Italy)

This paper presents the results of the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) inmanaging information on the effects of earthquakes in historical times on the island ofIschia. The unpublished sources on the Casamicciola earthquake of 28 July 1883 andthe extensive bibliography documenting the island's seismicity from 1228 showed theneed to proceed towards a type of data storage that would also allow management ofthe same data. Application of GIS techniques allowed us to insert, extract, handle,manage and analyse the data for the zoning of seismic damage on the island of Ischia.The end-product consists of information layers, such as maps of isoseismals, the damage, and hazard involved, as well as numerical tables associated to maps.The study was developed using GIS Arc-View 3.2 software (ESRI) and is structured inthematic vectorial levels and rasters. The overlapping themes constitute a cartographicdata base of the island. The damaged sites are located on a map at a scale of 1:10,000,with all the information on the 1883 earthquake (total number of houses, number ofcollapsed houses, collapsed or damaged rooms, photographs, plans of buildings, etc.)being associated to each site. The GIS is structured in such a way as to be able to beintegrated with further georeferenced data and with other databases. It is thus able toprovide support both for in-depth analyses of the dynamic processes on the island andextend the assessment to other natural risks (volcanic, landslides, flooding, etc.).     

Gschliefgraben mudslide (Austria): hazard evaluation and risk mitigation

A rock slide on top of the clayey–silty–sandy–pebbly masses in the Gschliefgraben (Upper Austria province, Lake Traunsee) having occurred in 2006, together with the humid autumn of 2007, triggered a mudslide comprising a volume up to 4 million m3 and moving with a maximum displacement velocity of 5 m/day during the winter of 2007–2008. The possible damage was estimated up to 60 million € due to the possible destruction of houses and of a road to a settlement with intense tourism. The movement front ran ahead in the creek bed. Therefore, it was assumed that water played an important role. Inclinometer measurements showed that a less permeable layer was sliding on a thin, more permeable layer. During the last centuries, mudslides had already pushed farms into the lake, as reported by chronicles. Thus, the inhabitants of 46 houses had to be evacuated for safety reasons. They could return to their homes after displacement velocities had decreased. It was decided (a) to prevent soaking of water into the uppermost, less permeable layer by transversal drainages, (b) to lower the pore water pressures by longitudinal trenches filled with blocky material, (c) to pump water out of the more permeable layer by well drillings upslope of the houses in order to create a stable block below the houses and (d) to remove material thrust over the stable blocks in order to avoid damage to the houses. These mitigation measures costing 11.5 million € led to a deceleration of the process to displacement velocities of some cm/year up to now. The houses and the road were not damaged.