Affiliation:
1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy
2. Department of Natural and Environmental Risks, ARPA Piemonte, 10135 Turin, Italy
Abstract
Landslides are the most common natural hazard in the Piemonte region (northwestern Italy). This study is focused on shallow landslides caused by the sliding of the surficial detrital-colluvial cover caused by rainfall and characterized by a sudden and fast evolution. This study investigates shallow landslide events compared with variables considered as main predisposing qualitative factors (lithology, pedology and land use) to obtain a zonation of shallow landslide susceptibility in a GIS environment. Additionally, wildfire occurrence is also evaluated as a further predisposing factor for shallow landslide initiation. The resulting susceptibility map shows a strong correlation between the first three variables and shallow landslide occurrence, while it shows a negligible, or very localized, relationship with wildfire occurrence. Through the intersection of the predisposing factors with the landslide data points, a map of homogeneous zones is obtained; each identified zone is characterized by uniform lithological, soil-type, and land-use characteristics. The shallow landslide density occurrence is computed for each zone, resulting in a four-range susceptibility map. The resulting susceptibility zones can be used to define and evaluate the hazard linked to shallow landslide events for civil protection and regional planning purposes.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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