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Landslide Planning Guidance

Reducing landslide risk through land-use planning de Vilder SJ, Kelly SD, Buxton R, Allan S, Glassey PJ. 2024. Landslide Planning Guidance. Reducing landslide risk through land-use planning. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science 77 p (GNS Scicence miscellaneous series; 144). doi:10.21420/R2X8-FJ49 Landslides have killed more people in New Zealand than any other geological hazard combined and […]

Landslide Early Warning Systems

Harrison SE, Potter SH, Glassey PJ, Massey C. 2023. Considerations for the development of Landslide Early Warning Systems in Aotearoa New Zealand. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science. 71p. (GNS Science report; 2023/29). https://doi.org/10.21420/06G9-DG40 This guidance document outlines key considerations in the design and development of a Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS) in Aotearoa New Zealand. […]

Performance of earthworks infrastructure

The performance and behaviour of earthworks (cuts, fills and retaining structures) impacted by landslides generated by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake have been investigated by WSP consultants. The work, presented in four reports, provides case studies and recommendations for resilient design and construction of these earthworks. The first report provides maps and summarises the […]

The New Zealand landslide dam database, v1.0

Morgenstern, R., Wolter, A., Cox, S.C. et al. The New Zealand landslide dam database, v1.0. Landslides (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10346-023-02133-4 Version 1.0 of the New Zealand Landslide Dam Database (NZLDD) has been developed to investigate dam formation, longevity, and stability. The database includes mapping, and/or remapping of 1036 dams, including those generated by the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake. The NZLDD represents a […]

Assessing landslide dam hazards in Aotearoa New Zealand: a data driven approach

Regine Morgenstern, Andrea Wolter, Chris Massey, Brenda Rosser, Simon C. Cox and Biljana Lukovic - GNS Science Presented at The XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment: Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth, Chengdu, China, September 2023 This abstract and presentation summarizes a method for assessing longevity, failure modes and […]

Conservation status of the Hutton's shearwater

Cargill, C.P.; Townsend, D.; McArthur, N.R.; Morgenstern, R.; Morrisey, M.; Sherley, G.; Bell, M. 2022. The conservation status of Hutton’s shearwater (Puffinus huttoni) at Shearwater Stream, Kaikōura, New Zealand: a small population at risk? Notornis 70(1): 1–13. This paper summarises the status of the Hutton’s shearwater (Puffinus huttoni), a burrowing petrel endemic to the alpine […]

Tools for managing landslide hazards resulting from the next large earthquake

by Chris Massey and Phil Glassey NZ Geomechanics News - Bulletin of the New Zealand Geotechnical Society Inc., December 2022, Issue 104 A suite of tools developed as part of this programme (see Data and Tools) including, webmaps, guidelines, calculators, probability maps and data that can be utilised for managing landslide hazard when NZ has […]

Slow-moving landslides triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand: A new InSAR phase-gradient based time-series approach.

Cao, Y., Hamling, I., Massey, C., & Upton, P. (2023). Slow-moving landslides triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand: A new InSAR phase-gradient based time-series approach. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102064. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102064 This paper presents a novel, satellite-based, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) approach to detect slow-moving landslide velocity differences before and […]

Coseismic Landslides

Editors: Ikuo Towhata, Gonghui Wang, Qiang Xu, Chris Massey Springer Natural Hazards, Springer Singapore, Edition 1, 679p, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6597-5, ISBN: 978-981-19-6596-8 Chris Massey, the lead for the EILD programme, is a co-editor of a new book on Coseismic landslides published by Springer, which features two chapters that come from the EILD research. The book sets out […]

Geomorphic Impacts of Large Earthquakes

Tim Davies, Tim Stahl, 2022. 9.28 - Geomorphic impacts of large Earthquakes in Treatise on Geomorphology (Second Edition), Editor(s): John (Jack) F. Shroder, Academic Press, 2022,Pages 652-674, ISBN 9780128182352, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.00013-4. A Recent book chapter describing the changes in landscapes related to large earthquakes. Tim Stahl is in the EILD team and has drawn from the […]

Mechanisms of rock slope failures triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake and implications for landslide susceptibility

Corinne Singeisen, Chris Massey, Andrea Wolter, Richard Kellett, Colin Bloom, Tim Stahl, Caleb Gasston, Katie Jones, 2022. Mechanisms of rock slope failures triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake and implications for landslide susceptibility. Geomorphology, Volume 415, 2022, 108386,ISSN 0169-555X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108386 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X22002793) Landslide failure mechanisms are influenced by topography, lithology, structure and rock mass […]

Rockfall Activity Rates Before, During and After the 2010/2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence

C. I. Massey,M. J. Olsen,J. Wartman,A. Senogles,B. Lukovic,B. A. Leshchinsky,G. Archibald,N. Litchfield,R. Van Dissen,S. de Vilder,C. Holden First published: JGR Earth Surface, Volume 127, Issue 3, 16 March 2022 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006400 Evidence from previous earthquakes suggests that the frequency of land sliding after a large earthquake is significantly higher than before it. Strong earthquakes cause slope […]

Earthquake induced landslide forecast tool

Massey CI, Lukovic B, Huso R, Buxton R, Potter SH. 2021. Earthquake-induced landslide forecast tool for New Zealand: version 2.0. Lower Hutt (NZ): GNS Science. 77 p. (GNS Science report; 2018/08). doi:10.21420/G2TP9V. This science report outlines a prototype earthquake-induced landslide forecast tool (Version 2.0) for New Zealand. The tool produces a model of landslide probability after a significant earthquake in near-real […]

Landslide runout: empirical relationships for various landslide types

Presented by Saskia de Vilder to the Fifth World Landslide Forum (WLF5) forum held in Kyoto, Japan 2-6 November 2021

The influence of off-fault deformation zones on the near-fault distribution of coseismic landslides

Colin K. Bloom, Andrew Howell, Timothy Stahl, Chris Massey, Corinne Singeisen; The influence of off-fault deformation zones on the near-fault distribution of coseismic landslides. Geology 2021; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G49429.1

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