Surge Waves Under Earthquake and Clastic Flow Landslide

Abstract

This paper primarily investigates the surge wave of the barrier lake during an earthquake and clastic flow landslide simultaneously. Earthquakes can trigger clastic flow landslides with strong mobility enabling them to move a significant distance underwater. However, there have been few studies on the simultaneous superposition of seismic surge and clastic flow landslide until this study. First, we designed an experiment to analyze the influence of landslide motion under surging water; then, we investigated the effects of the clastic flow landslide and earthquake on the variation of surge wave height, with large-scale shaking table water tank model experiments. The experimental variables included the initial water depth, peak ground acceleration, landslide impact velocity, and landslide volume. According to the experimental results, we analyzed the maximum wave height under the combined action of an earthquake and clastic flow landslide. Furthermore, we defined a reduction factor of the seismic surge and put forward an equation to predict the reduction factor by means of dimensionless multiple linear fitting analysis. Finally, we present a method for calculating the maximum wave height of the combined surge during both an earthquake and clastic flow landslide using the reduction factor and provide a case to verify the reliability of the formula. Our study could provide the basis for the analysis of the burst of the barrier lake.