Probabilistic landslide susceptibility analysis in tropical mountainous terrain using the physically-based r.slope.stability model

Autor(en)
Johnnatan Palacio Cordoba, Martin Mergili, Edier Aristizábal
Abstrakt

Landslides triggered by rainfall are very common phenomena in complex tropical environments such as the Colombian Andes, one of the regions of South America most affected by landslides every year. Currently in Colombia, physically based methods for landslide hazard mapping are mandatory for land use planning in urban areas. In this work, we perform probabilistic analyses with r.slope.stability, a spatially distributed, physically based model for landslide susceptibility analysis, available as an open-source tool coupled to GRASS GIS. This model considers alternatively the infinite slope stability model or the 2.5-D geometry of shallow planar and deep-seated landslides with ellipsoidal or truncated failure surfaces. We test the model in the La Arenosa catchment, northern Colombian Andes. The results are compared to those yielded with the corresponding deterministic analyses and with other physically based models applied in the same catchment. Finally, the model results are evaluated against a landslide inventory using a confusion matrix and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The model performs reasonably well, the infinite slope stability model showing a better performance. The outcomes are, however, rather conservative, pointing to possible challenges with regard to the geotechnical and geo-hydraulic parameterization. The results also highlight the importance to perform probabilistic instead of – or in addition to – deterministic slope stability analyses.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Journal
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Band
20
Seiten
815-829
Anzahl der Seiten
15
ISSN
1561-8633
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-815-2020
Publikationsdatum
2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
207201 Bodenmechanik, 107007 Risikoforschung, 105404 Geomorphologie, 102009 Computersimulation
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/probabilistic-landslide-susceptibility-analysis-in-tropical-mountainous-terrain-using-the-physicallybased-rslopestability-model(ec205249-77d3-4d0c-ba01-990bcae63286).html