EAGER: Catastrophic landslide dynamics from seismic wave inversion and satellite remote sensing

EAGER：地震波反演和卫星遥感的灾难性滑坡动力学这一建议旨在解决以下问题：灾难性边坡破坏产生的地震波是否保留了足够的信息，驱动滑坡的力量，以允许推断其动态？ 由于两个原因，人们对大型快速移动滑坡的动力学知之甚少：（1）多相滑动和颗粒流的物理学很复杂;（2）对这种灾难性破坏的经验约束很少，并且几乎不存在对加速度和速度等属性的直接测量。 滑坡地震学有可能通过远程测量质量运动的动态来填补数据空白，但该领域仍处于起步阶段，在对其进行重大投资之前，需要回答一些基本问题。 因此，该项目的重点是滑坡地震学背后的基本方法的概念证明。 该项目旨在开发一种方法，用于反演大规模快速加速滑坡运动过程中产生的长周期地震波，并评估从中推断的力、加速度、动量和能量的有效性，该试点研究的重点将是分析文献中描述的具有全球宽带地震数据的灾难性滑坡。 本研究的目的是开发远程和近实时检测灾难性滑坡的能力。 这对从事减轻自然灾害和灾害管理的社区有明显的好处，特别是在偏远地区发生大规模斜坡崩塌或通信严重受损的情况下。 此外，将这一工具应用于全球宽带地震学数据档案，将能够收集大量关于灾难性滑坡动力学的新信息，这将为与斜坡不稳定有关的科学和工程界提供服务。

EAGER: Catastrophic landslide dynamics from seismic wave inversion and satellite remote sensingThis proposal seeks to address the following issue: Do the seismic waves generated by catastrophic slope failure retain enough information on the forces driving a landslide to allow inference of its dynamics? The dynamics of large, fast-moving landslides are poorly understood for two reasons: (1) the physics of multi-phase sliding and granular flow is complex; (2) empirical constraints on such catastrophic failures are rare, and direct measurements of properties such as acceleration and velocity are almost non-existent. Landslide seismology has the potential to fill the data gap by making remote measurements of the dynamics of mass movement, but the field is in its infancy and fundamental questions need to be answered before major investment in it can be justified. Consequently, this project is focused on a proof of concept of the fundamental methodology behind landslide seismology. The project aims to develop a method for inverting the long-period seismic waves induced during the motion of massive, rapidly accelerating landslides, and evaluate the validity of the forces, accelerations, momenta and energies inferred from it. Emphasis in this pilot study will be on analysis of catastrophic landslides described in the literature for which global broadband seismological data are available. The aim of this study is to develop the ability to detect catastrophic landslides remotely and in near-real-time. This has obvious benefits to communities engaged in natural hazards mitigation and disaster management, notably in cases where massive slope failures strike in remote areas or under conditions where communications are severely compromised. In addition, application of this tool to the global archive of broadband seismology data will enable the collection of a wealth of new information on catastrophic landslide dynamics, which will serve a wide range of science and engineering communities concerned with slope instability.