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Empirical Landslide Runout Relationships Data

Brideau, Marc-Andre; de Vilder, Saskia; Massey, Chris; Mitchell, Andrew; McDougall, Scott; Aaron, Jordan (2021) V1.0 Empirical Landslide Runout Relationships, compiled from international examples, for various landslide types. DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-9qbx-n796. Understanding how far a landslide travels from its source and what the landslide may impact is important in order to determine the hazard and risk posed by a […]

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/10.1029/2022GL102064Received 15 NOV 2022 This paper presents a novel, satellite-based, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) approach to detect slow-moving landslide velocity […]

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 […]

Hapuku River - measuring sediment transportation

Measuring sediment transport and river changes in the Hapuku River, Kaikoura, post the 2016 earthquake

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

Landslide dam hazards: assessing their formation, failure modes, longevity and downstream impacts

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

Hutton's Shearwaters earthquake impacts

A study on the earthquake impacts on Hutton's Shearwaters

Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura Research hui

Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura (Ngāti Kurī, Ngai Tahu) hosted a research hui on July 26-27 with participants from NIWA, Cawthron, the Universities of Auckland, Victoria Wellington, and Canterbury, at the Takanga Marae in Kaikoura. The gathering was initiated following Joshu Mountjoy (NIWA) inviting Ngāti Kurī representatives aboard the Tangaroa research vessel to show them the […]

The transformation of a steepland river valley following an earthquake-triggered landslide near Kaikōura, NZ

Tunnicliffe, J., Howarth, J., & Massey, C. 2021, April. The transformation of a steepland river valley following an earthquake-triggered landslide near Kaikōura, NZ. In EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. EGU21-10867) In the relatively short and steep catchments of New Zealand’s Alps and Front Range, river systems traverse several process domains, from steep boulder-bed cascades […]

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