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The mechanism of shallow submarine landslides triggered by storm surge

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Submarine landslides triggered by storm surge have a major impact on human life by destabilizing offshore installations and generating tsunamis. Based on disaster-related marine geology, this paper analyzes the characteristics of storm surge load and response of seabed soil under the action of storm surge, and then examines mechanisms of submarine landslides triggered by storm surge. Important advances in this field are summarized and a scope for future studies is suggested. Current studies show that there are three load forms of storm surge: storm tide, storm wave, and storm current. Among these, the storm wave is the main factor in submarine slope instability. Under storm surge load, there is a series of changes in seabed soil, such as pressure consolidation, liquefied rheology, and mass transport. Therefore, two types of theory can be used to explain the mechanism of submarine landslide, liquefaction failure, and shear failure. Future studies in this field may focus on the mechanism of soil–water interaction under storm surge, establishing the critical condition of slope failure and failure modes of submarine landslides, and improving techniques of field monitoring and testing.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2014M551453), the Fundamental Research Funds of Jilin University (Grant No. 450060501142), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Tongji University).

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  1. Department of Geotechnical Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Min Zhang, Yu Huang & Yangjuan Bao

  2. College of Construction Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130026, Jilin, China

    Min Zhang

  3. Key Laboratory of Geotechnical and Underground Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China

    Yu Huang

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Zhang, M., Huang, Y. & Bao, Y. The mechanism of shallow submarine landslides triggered by storm surge. Nat Hazards 81, 1373–1383 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-2112-0

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