An engineering rock classification to evaluate seismic rock-fall susceptibility and its application to the Wasatch Front
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Abstract
Investigations of earthquakes world wide show that rock falls are the most abundant type of landslide that is triggered by earthquakes. An engineering classification originally used in tunnel design, known as the rock mass quality designation (Q), was modified for use in rating the susceptibility of rock slopes to seismically-induced failure. Analysis of rock-fall concentrations and Q-values for the 1980 earthquake sequence near Mammoth Lakes, California, defines a well-constrained upper bound that shows the number of rock falls per site decreases rapidly with increasing Q. Because of the similarities of lithology and slope between the Eastern Sierra Nevada Range near Mammoth Lakes and the Wasatch Front near Salt Lake City, Utah, the probabilities derived from analysis of the Mammoth Lakes region were used to predict rock-fall probabilities for rock slopes near Salt Lake City in response to a magnitude 6.0 earthquake. These predicted probabilities were then used to generalize zones of rock-fall susceptibility.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | An engineering rock classification to evaluate seismic rock-fall susceptibility and its application to the Wasatch Front |
| Series title | Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists |
| DOI | 10.2113/gseegeosci.xxx.3.293 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1993 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association of Engineering Geologists |
| Description | 27 p. |
| First page | 293 |
| Last page | 319 |
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