Gomez, C.; Hotta, N. Deposits’ Morphology of the 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu Earthquake Mass Movements from LiDAR & Aerial Photographs. Remote Sens.2021, 13, 3421.
Gomez, C.; Hotta, N. Deposits’ Morphology of the 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu Earthquake Mass Movements from LiDAR & Aerial Photographs. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3421.
Gomez, C.; Hotta, N. Deposits’ Morphology of the 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu Earthquake Mass Movements from LiDAR & Aerial Photographs. Remote Sens.2021, 13, 3421.
Gomez, C.; Hotta, N. Deposits’ Morphology of the 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu Earthquake Mass Movements from LiDAR & Aerial Photographs. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3421.
Abstract
On the 6th September at 03:08AM local time, the Iburi-Hokkaido Earthquake, only 33 km deep triggers >5,000 co-seismic mass-movements in the hills in a 25 km radius from the epicenter. Although the majority of the mass-movements occurred in complex-geometry valley with the coalescence of deposits, a small sub-set of 59 events deposited on the semi-horizontal val-ley-floor generating separated deposits that were studied in the present contribution. The aim of the present contribution was to contribute to the existing databases of empirical relationships based on planform and vertical dataset, and to define the scalars of those relations that charac-terize the mass-movements of the Iburi-Hokkaido earthquake, with the overarching goal of generating predictors for hazard-mapping. To reach these objectives, the methodology relies on LiDAR data flown in the aftermath of the earthquake as well as aerial photographs. Using Geo-graphical Information Science (GIS) tools planform and vertical parameters were extracted to calculate the power-law relations between areas and volume, between the Fahrböschung and the volume of the deposits, as well as other geometric relationships. Results have shown that the relation S=k〖V_d〗^(2/3) where S is the surface area of a deposit and Vd the volume, and k a scalar that is function of S: k=2.1842 ln(S)-10.167 with a R2 of 0.52, and this relation is improved for the open-slope mass-movements but not the valley-confined ones, that present more varia-bility. The Fahrböschung for events that started as valley-confined mass-movements was Fc = -0.043ln(D) + 0.7082 with a R2 of 0.5m while for open-slope mass-movements, the Fo = -0.046ln(D) + 0.7088 with a R2 of 0.52. These results contribute to the growing co-seismic land-slide database and they can also be the base to understand the role of the counter-slopes and complex topography on the spread and distance travelled by the mass-movement deposits.
Keywords
landslides; debris-flows; LiDAR; morphometry
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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