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Map of Co-seismic ruptures and landslides<\/a> from the M=7.8 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n To generate this map, which shows 5,875 landslides is a remarkable effort.\u00a0 The maps of the density of landslides is particularly interesting to me:<\/p>\n Map of landslide density<\/a> from the M=7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, via Valkaniotis Sotiris<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n I noted in my earlier post that a reasonable first order estimate of the landslide locations can be obtained from the coincidence of the topography and the aftershock sequence.\u00a0 This is a map of the aftershocks from the earthquake, mapped as a KML by Geonet<\/a>.<\/p>\n Geonet \/ GNS data<\/a> showing the locations of the aftershock sequence triggered by the M=7.8 Kaikoura earthquake, mapped on Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n The coincidence between the two is not perfect of course (we would not expect it to be)\u00a0 but the aftershocks are a surprisingly good predictor of the landslide distribution.\u00a0 It would be interesting to know whether the aftershocks are a better predictor than the ShakeMap peak ground acceleration data.\u00a0 The map produced by Valkaniotis Sotiris hints that this might be the case.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valkaniotis Sotiris of the University of Thessaloniki has posted a revised map of landslides triggered by the M=7.8 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":20558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[23,469,1213,7],"class_list":["post-20553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earthquake-induced-landslide","tag-earthquake","tag-featured","tag-kaikoura","tag-new-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20553","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=20553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Other posts that might be of interest:<\/h5>\n
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