Slope stability under seismic activity and precipitations

Abstract: Processes leading to slope failures are often difficult to describe/understand since they involve complex interactions of seismic, geological and hydro-meteorological factors. To date, we are still puzzled by the triggering of the Kainama loess earthflow in April 26 2004, in the Gulcha region (Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia), in the transitional zone between the Fergana Basin in the north and the Alai Range in the south. Indeed, numerical simulations conducted so far and using the 2D finite difference code FLAC have shown that the ...