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GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
Volume 221, Issue 3, Pages 1777-1788Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggaa050
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Geomechanics; Numerical modelling; Seismic interferometry; Seismic noise
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- VOR program (Universite Grenoble Alpes)
- French national program C2ROP
- French National Research Agency [ANR-15-IDEX-02]
- project SIMOTER 1 - European Union under the ERDF-POIA program
- French government under the FNADT-CIMA program
- LabEx OSUG@2020 [ANR10 LABX56]
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In late June 2016, the Harmaliere clayey landslide (located 30 km south of the city of Grenoble, French Alps) was dramatically reactivated at the headscarp after a 35-yr-long period of continuous but limited activity. The total involved volume, which moved as sliding blocks of various sizes, was estimated to be about 2 x 10(6) m(3). Two seismometers were installed at the rear of the main headscarp in August 2016, on both sides of a developing fracture delineating a block with a volume of a few hundred cubic metres. For 4 months, they continuously recorded seismic ambient vibrations and microcarthquakes until the block broke. Five seismic parameters were derived from the monitoring: the cumulative number of microearthquakes (CNe), the seismic energy (SE), the block resonance frequency (f(B)), the relative variation in Rayleigh wave velocity (dV/V) deduced from noise cross-correlations between the two sensors and the associated correlation coefficient (CC). All parameters showed a significant precursory signal before the rupture, but at very different times, which indicates the complexity of the rupture mechanism in this clay material.
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