Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Geological Prerequisites for Landslide Dams’ Disaster Assessment and Mitigation in Central Asia

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering ((ENVSCIENCE))

Abstract

Landslide dams’ hazard assessment aimed to disaster mitigation requires knowledge of the origin of hazardous phenomena, its triggering factors, magnitude, spatial distribution, recurrence, as well as characteristics of their possible secondary and tertiary effects. These hazards identification and quantification can be derived from detail geological and geomorphic study of the present and past river-damming landslides and related phenomena such as evidence of outburst floods. Several historical catastrophes that occurred in the Central Asian region due to formation and/or breach of landslide dams are described briefly and case studies demonstrating various manifestations of landslide damming in the Central Asia region are discussed with special emphasis on those topics, which still remain unsolved or controversial. These are: (1) the landslide versus moraine interpretation of the Pamirs’ natural blockages origin, (2) the relationship between formation of large-scale bedrock landslides and seismicity, which is critically important for both landslide and seismic hazard assessment, (3) morphological and structural peculiarities of large-scale bedrock landslides—the main type of river-blocking slope failures that predetermine magnitude of river damming, its longevity and character and rate of dams’ breach. The importance of the detailed study of the past breached dams, as the analogues of the existing and future hazardous blockages is discussed in the conclusive remarks.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Abdrakhmatov K, Strom A (2006) Dissected rockslide and rock avalanche deposits; Tien Shan Kyrgyzstan. In: Evans SG, Scarascia Mugnozza G, Strom A, Hermanns RL (eds) Landslides from massive rock slope failure. NATO science series: IV: earth and environmental sciences, vol 49. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 551–572

    Google Scholar 

  • Abdrakhmatov KE, Tompson C, Weldon P (2007) Active tectonics of the Tien Shan. Bishkek, Ilim, 72 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Agakhanjanz OE (1989) Sarez. Hydrometeoizdat Press, Leningrad 110 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Alford D, Schuster RL (2000) Introduction and summary. In: Alford D, Schuster RL (eds) Usoi Landslide Dam and Lake Sarez. An assessment of hazard and risk in the Pamir mountains, Tajikistan. ISDR Prevention Series, No 1. UN, New York and Geneva, pp 1–18

    Google Scholar 

  • Ambraseys N, Bilham R (2012) The Sarez-Pamir earthquake and landslide of 18 February 1911. Seismol Res Lett 83(2):294–314

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Belousov TP, Skobelev SF, Strom AL (1994) On estimation of the recurrence period of strong earthquakes of the central Tien Shan (according to the data of absolute geochronology). J Earthq Predict Res 3:226–236

    Google Scholar 

  • Besstrashnov V, Zhirkevisch A, Strom A (2011) The potential landslide and glacial blockages breach assessment: its influence on the Rogun HPP safety. The Second World Landslide Forum Abstract Book, p 384

    Google Scholar 

  • Bogdanovich KI, Kark IM, Korolkov BYa, Muchketov DI (1914) Earthquake of the 4th January 1911 in the northern districts of the Tien Shan. Tr Geol Com Ser 89, 270 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bukinich DD (1913) Usoi earthquake and its consequences. Russian Gazette, No 187 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Bull WB (1996) Prehistorical earthquakes on the Alpine fault, New Zealand. J Geophys Res 101(B3):6037–6050

    Google Scholar 

  • Burger KC, Degenhardt JJ, Giardino JR (1999) Engineering geomorphology of rock glaciers. Geomorphology 31:93–132

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Casagli N, Ermini L (1999) Geomorphic analysis of landslide dams in the Northern Apennine. Trans Jpn Geomorphol Union 20(3):219–249

    Google Scholar 

  • Cheng C-T, Chiou S-J, Lee C-T, Tsai Y-B (2007) Study on probabilistic seismic hazard maps of Taiwan after Chi–Chi earthquake. J GeoEng 2(1):19–28

    Google Scholar 

  • Costa JE, Schuster RL (1988) The formation and failure of natural dams. GSA Bull 100:1054–1068

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Costa JE, Schuster RL (1991) Documented historical landslide dams from around the world. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 91–239:486

    Google Scholar 

  • Crosta GB, Frattini P, Fusi N, Sosio R (2011) Formation, Characterisation and Modeling of the Val Pola Rock-Avalanche Dam (Italy). In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 347–368

    Google Scholar 

  • Crozier MJ (1992) Determination of paleoseismicity from landslides. In: Landslides (Glissements de terrain), Bell DH (ed). Proceedings of the 6th international symposium, vol 2, Christchurch, New Zealand, pp 1173–1180

    Google Scholar 

  • Davies TR, McSaveney MJ (2011) Rock-avalanche size and runout—implications for landslide dams. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 441–462

    Google Scholar 

  • Delaney KB, Evans SG (2011) Rockslide dams in the northwest Himalayas (Pakistan, India) and the adjacent Pamir mountains (Afghanistan, Tajikistan), Central Asia. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 205–242

    Google Scholar 

  • Delvaux D, Abdrakhmatov KE, Lemzin IN, Strom AL (2001) Landslides and surface breaks of the 1911, Ms 8.2 Kemin earthquake, Kyrgyzstan. Russ Geol Geophys 42(10):1167–1177

    Google Scholar 

  • Dunning SA, Armitage PJ (2011) The grain-size distribution of rock-avalanche deposits: implications for natural dam stability. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 479–598

    Google Scholar 

  • Ermini L, Casagli N (2003) Prediction of the behavior of landslide dams using a geomorphological dimensionless index. Earth Surf Proc Land 28:31–47

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Evans SG, Bishop NF, Smoll LF, Murillo PV, Delaney KB, Oliver-Smith A (2009a) A re-examination of the mechanism and human impact of catastrophic mass flows originating on Nevado Huascarán, Cordillera Blanca, Peru in 1962 and 1970. Eng Geol 108:96–118

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Evans SG, Roberts NJ, Ischuck A, Delaney KB, Morozova GS, Tutubalina O (2009b) Landslides triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake, Tajikistan, and associated loss of life. Eng Geol 109(3–4):195–212

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Evans SG, Delaney KB, Hermanns RL, Strom A, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (2011) The formation and behavior of natural and artificial rockslide dams; implications for engineering performance and hazard management. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 1–75

    Google Scholar 

  • Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) (2011) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, pp 1–642

    Google Scholar 

  • Fan X, van Westen CJ, Xu Q, GorumT, Dai F (2012) Analysis of landslide dams induced by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. J Asian Earth Sci (Submitted)

    Google Scholar 

  • Fedorenko VS (1988) Rockslides and rockfalls and their prediction. Moscow State University Publishing House, Moscow (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Florensov NA, Solonenko VP (1963) The Gobi-Altai earthquake, Akademiya Nauk USSR, Moscow, 391 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Florensov NA, Solonenko VP (1965) The Gobi-Altai earthquake, Israel program for scientific translations (in English). U.S Department of Commerce, Washington, p 424

    Google Scholar 

  • Gaziev E (1984) Study of the Usoi Landslide in Pamir. In: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on landslides, vol 1, Toronto, pp 511–515

    Google Scholar 

  • Gerasimov V (1965) The Issyk catastrophe in 1963 and its effects on geomorphology of the Issyk River Valley. Trans All-Union Geogr Soc 97(6):541–547 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Hadley JB (1964) Landslides and related phenomena accompanying the Hebgen Lake earthquake of August 17, 1959. USGS Professional Paper 345-K, pp 107–138

    Google Scholar 

  • Hanisch J, Söder C-O (2000) Geotechnical assessment of the Usoi landslide dam and the right bank of Lake Sarez. In: Alford D, Schuster RL (eds) Usoi Landslide dam and lake Sarez. An assessment of hazard and risk in the Pamir mountains, Tajikistan. ISDR Prevention Series, No 1. UN, New York and Geneva, pp 23–42

    Google Scholar 

  • Hartvich F, Mugnai F, Proietti C, Smolková V, Strom A (2008) A reconstruction of a former rockslide-dammed lake: the case of the Kokomeren River valley (Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan), Geophysical Research Abstracts 10 EGU General Assembly 2008

    Google Scholar 

  • Hermanns RL, Niedermann S, Ivy-Ochs S, Kubik PW (2004) Rock avalanching into a landslide-dammed lake causing multiple dam failure in Las Conchas valley (NW Argentina)—evidence from surface exposure dating and stratigraphic analyses. Landslides 1:113–122

    Google Scholar 

  • Hermanns RL, Hewitt K, Strom A, Evans SG, Dunning SA, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (2011) The Classification of rockslide dams. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 581–593

    Google Scholar 

  • Hewitt K (1998) Catastrophic landslides and their effects on the Upper Indus streams, Karakoram Himalaya, Northern Pakistan. Geomorphology 26:47–80

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hewitt K (2002) Postglacial landform and sediment associaton in a landslide-fragmented river system: the Transhimalayan Indus streams, Central Asia. In: Hewitt K et al. (eds) Landscapes of transition. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 63–91

    Google Scholar 

  • Hewitt K (2006) Rock avalanches with complex run out and emplacement, Karakoram Himalaya, Inner Asia. In: Evans SG, Scarascia Mugnozza G, Strom A, Hermanns RL (eds.) Landslides from massive rock slope failure. NATO science series: IV: earth and environmental sciences, vol 49. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 521–550

    Google Scholar 

  • Hewitt K (2010) Gifts and perils of landslides. Am Sci 98:410–419

    Google Scholar 

  • Hewitt K (2011) Rock avalanche dams on the Trans Himalayan Upper Indus streams: a survey of Late Quaternary events and hazard-related characteristics. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds.), Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 177–204

    Google Scholar 

  • Huang RQ, Li WL (2009) Analysis of the geo-hazards triggered by the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China. Bull Eng Geol Environ 68:363–371

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hung JJ (2000) Chi–Chi earthquake-induced landslides in Taiwan. Earthq Eng Eng Seismol 2(2):25–33

    Google Scholar 

  • Hutchinson JN, Kojan E (1975) The Mayunmarca landslide of 25th April 1974, Peru, Report Ser. No. 3124/RMO. RD/SCE, UNESCO, Paris

    Google Scholar 

  • Ignatiev IV (1886) The earthquake in the Tokmak district in the 1885. In: Proceedings of the Russian imperial geographic society, vol 22, issue 2 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Ischuk NR (2008) Blockages of river valleys in Tajikistan and their role in assessment of the regional seismicity. In: Proceedings of the 4th international symposium “geodynamics of the intracontinental orogens and geoecological problems”, Bishkek, June 15–20, 2008, pp 244–245

    Google Scholar 

  • Ischuk AR (2011) Usoi rockslide dam and lake Sarez, Pamir mountains, Tajikistan. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 423–440

    Google Scholar 

  • Ischuk NR (2011b) The origin of the mountain river closures in Tajikistan. Abstract book of the Second World Landslide Forum, Rome 393 p

    Google Scholar 

  • Ischuk NR (2011b) The Role of glacial deposits in forming modern mountain lake dams in the Pamirs. Georisk No 1, pp 16–29 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Jan CD, Chen CL (2005) Debris flows cased by Typhoon Herb in Taiwan. In: Jacob M, Hungr O (eds) Debris-flow hazards and related phenomena. Praxis, Springer, Berlin, pp 539–556

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Jibson RW, Harp EL, Schulz W, Keefer DK (2006) Large rock avalanches triggered by the M 7.9 Denali Fault, Alaska, earthquake of 3 November 2002. Eng Geol 83:144–160

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • King GCP, Stein RS (1983) Surface folding, river terrace deformation rate and earthquake repeat time in a reverse faulting environment. Spec Publ Calif Div Mines Geol 66:165–176

    Google Scholar 

  • King GCP, Vita-Finzi C (1981) Active folding in the Algerian earthquake of 10 October 1980. Nature 292:22–26

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • King J, Loveday I, Schuster RL (1989) The 1985 Bairaman landslide dam and resulting debris flow Papua New Guinea. Q J Eng Geol 22:257–270

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Korchevskiy VF, Kolichko AV, Strom A, Pernik LM, Abdrakhmatov KE (2011) Utilisation of data derived from large-scale experiments and study of natural blockages for blast-fill dam design. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 617–637

    Google Scholar 

  • Korjenkov AM (2006) Seismogeology of the Tien Shan (within the limits of the Kyrgyztan and ajacent regions). Bishkek, Ilim 289 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Korjenkov AM, Mamyrov E, Omuraliev M, Kovalenko VA, Usmanov SF (2004) Rock avalanches and landslides formed in result of strong Suusamyr (1992, M = 7,4) earthquake in the Northern Tien Shan-test structures for mapping of paleoseismic deformations by satellite images. In: Buchroithner MF (ed) High Mountain Remote Sensing Cartography VII (HMRSC VII). Kartographische Bausteine, Band 23, Dresden, pp 117–136

    Google Scholar 

  • Korup O, Strom AL, Weidinger JT (2006) Fluvial response to large rock-slope failures—examples from the Himalayas, the Tien Shan and the New Zealand Southern Alps. Geomorphology 78:3–21

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Krahn J, Morgenstern NR (1976) Mechanics of the Frank slide. In: Rock Engineering for Foundations and Slopes, American Society of Civil Engineers vol 1, pp 309–331

    Google Scholar 

  • Leonov NN (1960) The 1949 Khait earthquake and geological conditions of its occurrence. In: Proceedings of Russian academy of sciences, geophysical series, No 3, pp 409–424 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Leonov NN (1970) The 1946 Chatkal earthquake. Problems of the engineering seismology 13:64–77 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Luknitskiy PN (1955) Travel over the Pamirs. Molodaya Gvardia Publishers, Moscow (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Makarov VI (1977) Newest tectonic structure of the Central Tien Shan. Science Publishers, Moscow. 172 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Malamud BD, Turcotte DL, Guzzetti F, Reichenbach P (2004) Landslides, earthquakes and erosion. Earth Planet Sci Lett 229:45–59

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McColl ST (2012) Paraglacial rock-slope stability. Geomorphology 153–154:1–16

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McSaveney MJ (1978) Sherman glacier rock avalanche. In: Voight B (ed) Rockslides and avalanches, natural phenomena, vol 1. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 197–258

    Google Scholar 

  • McSaveney MJ, Davies TRH (2006) Rapid rock-mass flow with dynamic fragmentation: inferences from the morphology and internal structure of rockslides and rock avalanches. In: Evans SG, Scarascia Mugnozza G, Strom A, Hermanns RL (eds) Landslides from massive rock slope failure. NATO science series: IV: earth and environmental sciences, vol 49. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 285–304

    Google Scholar 

  • Meghraoui M, Doumaz F (1996) Earthquake-induced flooding and paleoseismicity of the El Asnam, Algeria, fault-related fold. J Geophys Res 101(B8):17617–17644

    Google Scholar 

  • Mushketov IV (1890) The Vernyi earthquake of 28/05 (9/06) 1887. In: Proceedings of Geological Committee, 10(1), St. Petersburg, 154 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Negmatullaev SH, Ischuk NR (2011) The Sarez Lake: sizing up the investigations. Georisk 1:8–14 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Neshikhovskiy RA (1988) Floods on rivers and lakes. Hydrometeoizdat, Leningrad, 184 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Owen LA, England J (1998) Observations on rock glaciers in the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains of Northern Pakistan and India. Geomorphology 26:199–213

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Owen LA, Kamp U, Khattak GA, Harp EL, Keefer DK, Bauer MA (2008) Landslides triggered by the 8 October 2005 Kashmir earthquake. Geomorphology 94:1–9

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Papirin LP (1990) Main regularities of water seepage through the Usoi blockage. TajikNIINTI, Dushanbe, pp 6–11 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Paramonov BA (1969) Formation of the Usoi blockage relief. Bull Moscow State University 5:110–112 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Plafker G, Eriksen GE (1978) Nevados Huascaran avalanches, Peru. In: Voight B (ed) Rockslides and avalanches, vol 1. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 277–314

    Google Scholar 

  • Poschinger Av (2011) The flims rockslide dam. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 407–421

    Google Scholar 

  • Poschinger A von , Wassmer P, Maisch M (2006) The flims rockslide: history of interpretation and new insights. In: Evans SG, Scarascia Mugnozza G, Strom A, Hermanns RL (eds) Landslides from massive rock slope failure. NATO science series: IV: earth and environmental sciences, vol 49. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 329–356

    Google Scholar 

  • Preobrajensky J (1920) The Usoi Landslide. Geol. Comm., Papers on Applied Geol., vol 14, 21 pp (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Pushkarenko VP, Nikitin AM (1988) Experience in the regional investigation of the state of mountain lake dams in Central Asia and the character of breach mudflow formation. Landslides and mudflows (in two volumes), UNESCO/ UNEP, Moscow (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Reizvikh VN, Krukovskiy GL, Nikitin AM (1971) Causes and conditions of the Yashinkul Lake outburst. Collection of papers of the Tashkent Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (4):49–95 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Rezvoi DP, Rezvoi PD (1969) Lake that disappeared. Priroda(Nature) 7:81–83 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Rezvoi DP, AlexeenkoAV, Bolgar BD, ErmolenkoYuA, Marushkin IA, Rezvoi PD, Soloshenko II (1971) Rockfall-dammed lakes of the Alai Range—important factor of the high mountain relief formation. Reports and News of the L'vov branch of the Ukraine Geographical Society (1968–1969). Lvov University Publishing House, pp 71–73 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Schuster RL, Costa JE (1986) A perspective on landslide dams. In Schuster RL (ed) Landslide dams: processes, risk and mitigation. American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY, Geotechnical Special Publication No. 3, pp 1–20

    Google Scholar 

  • Schuster RL, Evans SG (2011) Engineering measures for the hazard reduction of landslide dams. In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 77–100

    Google Scholar 

  • Shang Y, Yang Z, Li L, Liu D, Liao Q, Wang Y (2003) A super-large landslide in Tibet in 2000: background, occurrence, disaster, and origin. Geomorphology 54:225–243

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Sheko AI (1968) The Usoi blockage stability and the Lake Sarez breach assessment. Bull Moscow Nat Invest Soc Geol Sect 4:151–152 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Sheko AI, Lekhatinov AM (1970) Current state of the Usoi blockage and tasks of future studies. In: Materials of Scientific-technical meeting on the problems of study and forecast of the mudflows, rockfalls and landslides, Dushanbe, pp 219–223 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • Shpilko GA (1915) New data on the Usoi blockage and the Sarez Lake. In: Proceedings of the Turkestan Department of Russian Geographical Society, vol 11, pp 11–17 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

  • State Water Inventory (1964–1981) Annual data on the mainland superficial water regime and resources 5 (basins of the Central Asian Rivers)

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL (1994) Mechanism of stratification and abnormal crushing of rockslide deposits. In: Proceedings of 7th international IAEG congress, vol 3, Balkema, Rotterdam, pp 1287–1295

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL (2006) Morphology and internal structure of rockslides and rock avalanches: grounds and constraints for their modeling. In: Evans SG, Scarascia Mugnozza G, Strom A, Hermanns RL (eds) Landslides from massive rock slope failure. NATO science series: IV: earth and environmental sciences, vol 49. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 305–328

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL (2010a) Evidence of momentum transfer during large-scale rockslides’ motion. In: Williams AL, Pinches GM, Chin CY, McMorran TG, Massei CI (eds) Geologically active. In: Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress, Auckland, New Zealand, 5–10 September 2010, Tailor & Francis Group, London, pp 73–86

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom A (2010b) Landslide dams in Central Asia region. Landslides. J Jpn Landslide Soc 47(6):309–324

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL (2012a) Effects of rockslides and rock avalanches on hydropower schemes in the Naryn River valley. Proc 11 ISL (in press)

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL (2012b) Use of indirect evidence for the prehistoric earthquake-induced landslides identification. In: Proceedings of the international symposium on earthquake-induced landslides, Kiryu, Japan, November 7–9, 2012

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom A (2012c) Usoi landslide and Lake Sarez. In: Bobrowsky P (ed) Encyclopedia of natural hazards. Springer, Heidelberg (in press)

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL, Abdrakhmatov KE (2004) Clustering of large rockslides: the phenomenon and its possible causes. In: Lacerda WA, Ehrlich M, Fontoura AB, Sayao A (eds) Landslides: evaluation and stabilization. Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp 317–320

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL, Abdrakhmatov KE (2009) International summer school on rockslides and related phenomena in the Kokomeren River valley, Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. In: Sassa K, Canuti P (eds) Landslide disaster risk reduction. Springer, Berlin, pp 223–227

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL, Groshev ME (2009) Mysteries of rock massifs destruction. In: Abbie M, Bedford JS (eds) Rock mechanics: new research. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, pp 211–231

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL, Korup O (2006) Extremely large rockslides and rock avalanches in the Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan. Landslides 3:125–136

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL, Nikonov AA (1997) Relations between the seismogenic fault parameters and earthquake magnitude. Izvestia Phys Solid Earth 33:1011–1022

    Google Scholar 

  • Strom AL, Stepanchikova P (2008) Seismic triggering of large prehistoric rockslides: pro and con case studies. In: Proceedings of the international conference on management of landslide hazard in the asia-pacific region (satellite symposium of the first world landslide forum), pp 202–211

    Google Scholar 

  • Stuiver M, Reimer PJ (1993) Extended 14C data base and revised CALIB 3.0 14C age calibration program. Radiocarbon 35:215–230

    Google Scholar 

  • Walker M (2005) Quaternary dating methods. Willey, New York, 286 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Weidinger JT (2011) Stability and life span of landslide dams in the Himalayas (India, Nepal) and the Qin Ling Mountains (China) In: Evans SG, Hermanns R, Strom AL, Scarascia-Mugnozza G (eds) Natural and artificial rockslide dams. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 133. Springer, Heidelberg, pp 243–277

    Google Scholar 

  • Wells DL, Coppersmith KJ (1994) Empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture area, and surface displacement. Bull Seis Soc Am 84:974–1002

    Google Scholar 

  • Wu S, Wang T, Shi L, Sun P, Shi J, Li B, Xin P, Wang H (2010) Study on catastrophic landslides triggered by 2008 great Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China. J Eng Geol 18(2):145–159

    Google Scholar 

  • Yin Y, Wanf F, Sun P (2009) Landslide hazards triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan, China. Landslides 6:139–151

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yin Y, Zheng W, Li X, Sun P, Li B (2011) Catastrophic landslides associated with the M8.0 Wenchuan earthquake. Bull Eng Geol Environ 70(1):15–32

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Zaninetti A (2000) Monitoring and early warning system. In: Alford D, Schuster RL (eds) Usoi landslide dam and Lake Sarez. An assessment of hazard and risk in the Pamir mountains, Tajikistan. ISDR Prevention Series, No 1. UN, New York and Geneva, pp 63–72

    Google Scholar 

  • Zhirkevich AN, Besstrashnov VM, Shilina EN, Strom AL (2011) Discharge assessment of outburst floods caused by the existing and potential natural blockages breach in the Vakhsh River basin upstream from the planned Rodun Dam. Hydrotech Constr 12:38–46 (in Russian)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

My work on landslide dams in the Central Asia regions was supported by the International Program on Landslides (IPL) Projects M111, M126 and C106-2, by NATO Science for Peace LADATSHA Project “Prevention of Landslide Dam Disasters in the Tien Shan, Kyrgyz Republic”, and by the GEF/UNEP/UNU PALM Project “Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains”. Field work in the Tien Shan would be impossible without continuous support of Dr. Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov and his colleagues from Kyrgyz Institute of Seismology. I also want to thank my colleagues from Hydroproject Dr. Anatoly Zhirkevich, Dr. Ivan Lobodenko, Mr. Danil Remeniak and Ms. Natalia Pribylova for useful discussions and Prof. Fawu Wang for his suggestion to write this article and thorough review of the manuscript.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Geodynamic Research Center—Branch of JSC, Hydroproject Institute, Volokolamsk Highway, 2, Moscow, Russia, 125993

    Alexander Strom

Authors
  1. Alexander Strom
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Alexander Strom .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. , Faculty of Sci. & Engr., Shimane University, Nishikawatsu-cho 1060, Matsue, 69-8504, Japan

    Fawu Wang

  2. Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa, 920-1192, Japan

    Masakatsu Miyajima

  3. , Department of Geological Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an, 710054, China, People's Republic

    Tonglu Li

  4. , Institute of Engineering Geology Explora, Northeast Forestry University, Hexing Road 26, Harbin, 150040, China, People's Republic

    Wei Shan

  5. , Dept. of Civil and, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jl. Grafika No. 2 Kampus UGM, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia

    Teuku Faisal Fathani

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Strom, A. (2013). Geological Prerequisites for Landslide Dams’ Disaster Assessment and Mitigation in Central Asia. In: Wang, F., Miyajima, M., Li, T., Shan, W., Fathani, T. (eds) Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29107-4_2

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation