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Seismic characterization of a clay-block rupture in Harmalière landslide, French Western Alps

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In late June 2016, the Harmalière clayey landslide (located 30 km south of the city of Grenoble, French Alps) was dramatically reactivated at the headscarp after a 35-yr-long period of continuous but limited activity. The total involved volume, which moved as sliding blocks of various sizes, was estimated to be about 2×10^6 m3. Two seismometers were installed at the rear of the main headscarp in August 2016, on both sides of a developing fracture delineating a block with a volume of a few hundred cubic metres. For 4 months, they continuously recorded seismic ambient vibrations and microearthquakes until the block broke. Five seismic parameters were derived from the monitoring: the cumulative number of microearthquakes (CNe), the seismic energy (SE), the block resonance frequency (fB), the relative variation in Rayleigh wave velocity (dV/V) deduced from noise cross-correlations between the two sensors and the associated correlation coefficient (CC). All parameters showed a significant precursory signal before the rupture, but at very different times, which indicates the complexity of the rupture mechanism in this clay material.
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hal-03128222 , version 1 (23-08-2021)

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Sylvain Fiolleau, Denis Jongmans, Grégory Bièvre, Guillaume Chambon, Laurent Baillet, et al.. Seismic characterization of a clay-block rupture in Harmalière landslide, French Western Alps. Geophysical Journal International, 2020, 221 (3), pp.1777-1788. ⟨10.1093/gji/ggaa050⟩. ⟨hal-03128222⟩
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