{"id":19079,"date":"2016-06-28T07:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19079"},"modified":"2016-06-29T06:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T06:25:40","slug":"new-zealand-society-for-earthquake-engineering-report-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/06\/28\/new-zealand-society-for-earthquake-engineering-report-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report on the Kumamoto Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report on the Kumamoto Earthquake<\/h5>\n

The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering<\/a> has produced a report, available online<\/a>, on the Kumamoto Earthquake<\/a>.\u00a0 This is apt given that this area is once again suffering very heavy rainfall today – this is the Japan Meteorological Agency landslide hazard map<\/a> as I write:<\/p>\n

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Japan Meteorological Agency landslide hazard map<\/a> for the Kumamoto Earthquake area for the afternoon of 28th June 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fortunately, so far at least, rainfall totals have not approached those of earlier in the month.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report provides some real insight into the landslides triggered by the Kumamoto Earthquake.\u00a0 It notes that of the 49 deaths in the earthquake, 10 were caused by landslides, of which five occurred at a site at Aso Ohashi Village shown below.\u00a0 This is the source area of the earthslide \/ flow:-<\/p>\n

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The source area of the Aso Ohashi earthslide \/ flow via the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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Whilst this the zone of maximum damage at the toe:-<\/p>\n

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The damage zone for the earthslide \/ flow at Aso Ohashi Village, via the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

.<\/p>\n

Of course the best reported landslide in the Kumamoto Earthquake was the large debris avalanche at Aso Bridge.\u00a0 The report also provides a nice image of this landslide:-<\/p>\n

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The large debris avalanche at Aso Bridge via the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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The report notes that this landslide is 950 m long by 200 m wide, and that it caused at least one fatality.\u00a0 What is not often reported in the aftermath of earthquakes is the large numbers of small landslides that have caused local damage.\u00a0 The loss in each event can be comparatively small, but their cumulative impact can be large.\u00a0 This is an example of two small landslides, one of which has caused the failure of a bridge abutment and the other (circled in red) of a cantilevered section of road:<\/p>\n

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Two small but damaging landslides from the Kumamoto Earthquake, via the\u00a0 New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering report<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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There are lots of other reports on the Kumamoto Earthquake on the EERI website.<\/a>\u00a0 There are some amazing resources there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering have produced a very nice reconnaissance report on the impacts of the Kumamto Earthquake in Japan with a very nice interpretation of some of the landslides triggered by this important event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[23,881,469,361,1099],"class_list":["post-19079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-earthquake","tag-east-asia","tag-featured","tag-japan","tag-kumamoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}