Probabilistic approach to rock fall hazard assessment: potential of historical data analysis

We study the rock fall volume distribution for three rock fall inventories and we fit the observed data by a power-law distribution, which has recently been proposed to describe landslide and rock fall volume distributions, and is also observed for many other natural phenomena, such as volcanic...

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Main Authors: C. Dussauge-Peisser, A. Helmstetter, J.-R. Grasso, D. Hantz, P. Desvarreux, M. Jeannin, A. Giraud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2002-01-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/2/15/2002/nhess-2-15-2002.pdf