Theme 1: Landslide severity

Forecasting landslide severity at different magnitudes of ground shaking and rain.

Objectives:

Parametrise relationships between landslide susceptibility and forcing factors/variables (using Kaikōura data) at site-specific and regional scales

Test relationships (from 1.) against other NZ landslide datasets, and generate probabilistic- and physics-based landslide forecast models for NZ at varying scales

Incorporate runout models into susceptibility forecasts to generate true hazard forecasts

Apply results to current infrastructure project(s) as best practice case study recommendations

Theme leader:

Chris Massey, GNS Science

Severe landsliding on the coast at Ohau Point. These steep coastal slopes were particularly badly affected by landsliding compared with slopes of similar scale and in similar materials inland.

Photo: Dougal Townsend.

Theme research and updates

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Theme 1: Landslide severity

Forecasting landslide severity at different magnitudes of ground shaking and rain.

Objectives:

Theme leader:

Theme research and updates

Hutton's Shearwaters earthquake impacts

Quantitative risk analysis of earthquake-induced landslides

Drilling through an earthquake landslide

Landslide field mapping and geophysical surveys