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  Information - NH3.06 Landslides, ground-failures, mass movements, and meltwater: hazards from earthquakes and volcanoes

Event Information
Moderate to strong seismic shaking typically results in a series of hazards including landslides and other ground failures (e.g. liquefaction, surface faulting). Similarly, volcanic earthquakes, and volcanic activity in general, often trigger damaging mass movements. Additionally, ice and snow-capped volcanoes, both active and inactive, are the sources of hazards induced by melting of ice and snow, erosion, and generation of lahars and mixed avalanches. Multiple hazards resulting from these different destabilizing forces are often treated separately, even though an integrated approach to the problem is clearly desirable. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for discussion among researchers and other professionals involved in studies of landslides, ground failures, and related hazards caused by seismic and volcanic activity and to encourage multidisciplinary research in these fields. Among different possible topics, we would like to address the following: a) occurrence and evaluation of landslides triggered by recent and historic earthquakes, with analyses conducted both on local and regional scale; b) occurrence and evaluation of landslides triggered by recent and historic volcanic events, with analyses conducted both on local and regional scale; c) assessments of landslide and other ground failure hazards in relation to specific earthquake and volcanic events, and the general seismic, volcanic and tectonic setting and history of a given area, using empirical, probabilistic and deterministic methods, as well as applying GIS techniques; d) studies regarding modeling the influence of dynamic loading on slope stability and of seismically/volcanically induced landslide displacements; e) study of parameters, information management, and modeling related to ice and snow melting induced by eruption activity and hot rocks: f) monitoring and hazard prevention in and around ice and snow-capped volcanoes, g) field recognition and laboratory analysis of lahars, mixed avalanches and related hazards due to ice and snow melt and erosion, h) user requirements regarding hazard assessment and persisting challenges. We intend to publish a selection of the session papers in a special issue of an international, peer review journal.

Preliminary List of Solicited Speakers
J. Smellie

Co-Sponsorship
GM, VGP, CR

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