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Co-detection of micro seismic activity as early warning of gravitational slope failure
Jerome Faillettaz, Martin Funk, Jan Beutel +1
We developed a new strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction for gravitational slope failure: We propose a simple method for real-time early warning of gravity-driven failures that cons…
Prediction of alpine glacier sliding instabilities: a new hope
Jerome Faillettaz, Martin Funk, Didier Sornette
Mechanical and sliding instabilities are the two processes which may lead to breaking off events of large ice masses. Mechanical instabilities mainly affect unbalanced cold hanging…
Climate warming and stability of cold hanging glaciers: Lessons from the gigantic 1895 Altels break-off
Jerome Faillettaz, Didier Sornette, Martin Funk
The Altels hanging glacier broke off on September 11, 1895. The ice volume of this catastrophic rupture was estimated at cubic meters and is the largest ever observed…
Icequakes as precursors of ice avalanches
J. Faillettaz, M. Funk, D. Sornette
A hanging glacier at the east face of Weisshorn broke off in 2005. We were able to monitor and measure surface motion and icequake activity for 21 days up to three days prior to th…
Gravity-driven instabilities: interplay between state-and-velocity dependent frictional sliding and stress corrosion damage cracking
Jerome Faillettaz, Didier Sornette, Martin Funk
We model the progressive maturation of a heterogeneous mass towards a gravity-driven instability, characterized by the competition between frictional sliding and tension cracking,…