Journal
BULLETIN OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Volume 80, Issue 6, Pages 4323-4345Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10064-021-02238-x
Keywords
Landslides; Earthquakes; Rainfall; Post-seismic landslide susceptibility
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The study investigates the coupled effect of earthquakes and rainfall on landslide susceptibility. It reveals that earthquakes contribute to increasing the susceptibility to post-seismic rainfall-induced landslides, but this effect decreases over time.
The coupled effect of earthquakes and rainfall is rarely investigated in landslide susceptibility assessments although it could be crucial to predict landslide occurrences. This is even more critical in the context of early warning systems and especially in cases of extreme precipitation regimes in post-seismic conditions, where the rock masses are already damaged due to the ground shaking. Here, we investigate this concept by accounting for the legacy of seismic ground shaking in rainfall-induced landslide (RFIL) scenarios. We do this to identify whether ground shaking plays a role in the susceptibility to post-seismic rainfall-induced landslides and to identify whether this legacy effect persists through time. With this motivation, we use binary logistic regression and examine time series of landslides associated with four earthquakes occurred in Indonesia: 2012 Sulawesi (M-w = 6.3), 2016 Reuleut (M-w = 6.5), 2017 Kasiguncu (M-w = 6.6) and 2018 Palu (M-w = 7.5) earthquakes. The dataset includes one co-seismic and three post-seismic landslide inventories for each earthquake. We use the peak ground acceleration map of the last strongest earthquake in each case as a predisposing factor of landslides representing the effect of ground shaking. We observe that, at least for the study areas under consideration and in a probabilistic context, the earthquake legacy contributes to increase the post-seismic RFIL susceptibility. This positive contribution decays through time. Specifically, we observe that ground motion is a significant predisposing factor controlling the spatial distribution of RFIL in the post-seismic period 110 days after an earthquake. We also show that this effect dissipates within 3 years at most.
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