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Technical Note: Implementation of a geodatabase of published and unpublished data on the catastrophic Vaiont landslide
1Dept. of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy
2Dept. of Earth and Geo-Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
3Institute of Geomatics and Risk Analysis (IGAR), University of Lausanne, Switzerland
4Dept. of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Abstract. On 9 October 1963 a catastrophic landslide suddenly occurred on the southern slope of the Vaiont dam reservoir. A mass of approximately 270 million m3 collapsed into the reservoir generating a wave that overtopped the dam and hit the town of Longarone and other villages nearby. Several investigations and interpretations of the slope collapse have been carried out during the last 45 years, however, a comprehensive explanation of both the triggering and the dynamics of the phenomenon has yet to be provided.
In order to re-evaluate the currently existing information on the slide, an electronic bibliographic database and an ESRI-geodatabase have been developed. The chronology of the collected documentation showed that most of the studies for re-evaluating the failure mechanisms were conducted in the last decade, as a consequence of knowledge, methods and techniques recently acquired. The current contents of the geodatabase will improve definition of the structural setting that influenced the slide and led to the the propagation of the displaced rock mass.
The objectives, structure and contents of the e-bibliography and Geodatabase are indicated, together with a brief description on the possible use of the alphanumeric and spatial contents of the databases.
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Citation: Superchi, L., Floris, M., Ghirotti, M., Genevois, R., Jaboyedoff, M., and Stead, D.: Technical Note: Implementation of a geodatabase of published and unpublished data on the catastrophic Vaiont landslide, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 10, 865-873, doi:10.5194/nhess-10-865-2010, 2010. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
