Catastrophic Hazard Events

Geohazards, such as earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions and flank collapses, and derived tsunamis, can have devastating effects on populations, economies and landscapes around the world. Understanding and developing effective and sustainable strategies to assess the risks and minimise the impacts of these hazards is and will increasingly become a major task for geoscientists. This module provides basic knowledge about the underpining geoprocesses. Such knowledge is essential in order to be able to develop sustainable strategies in the future.

1) introduction and overview about submarine geohazards
2) earthquake mechanics and risk maps
3) volcanic flanc eruption and flank collapse
4) submarine landslides: triggers and slope stability analyses
5) tsunami: generation and impact, risk assessment

Various exercises for the individual topics

Portfolio (Prüfungsmappe)

Stein & Wysession: An introduction to seismology, earthquakes, and earth structure
Turcotte & Schubert: Geodynamics
Loseth: Submarine mass flow sedimentation
Saito: Tsunami generation and propagation

1st SWS: Introduction and overview about submarine geohazards: from observation to emergency plans
2nd SWS: Earthquakes: seismic hazard assessment
3rd SWS: Earthquakes: risk maps
4th SWS: Earthquakes: exercise
5th SWS: Landslides: mapping, monitoring, modelling
6th SWS: Landslides: slope stability analysis
7th SWS: Landslides: exercise
8th SWS: Volcanic flank collapses - background knowledge
9th SWS: Volcanic flank collapses - monitoing, hazard maps, modelling
10th SWS: Volcanic flank collapses: exercise
11th SWS: Tsunami: processes and impact
12th SWS: Tsunami: modelling techniques
13th SWS: Tsunami: exercise
14th SWS: Discuss individual examples

Notebook-Pool