Mapping the earthquake-induced landslide hazard around the main oil pipeline network of the Agri Valley (Basilicata, southern Italy) by means of two GIS-based modelling approaches

Flavio Borfecchia (), Gerardo Canio, Luigi Cecco, Alessandro Giocoli, Sergio Grauso, Luigi Porta, Sandro Martini, Maurizio Pollino, Ivan Roselli and Alessandro Zini
Additional contact information
Flavio Borfecchia: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Gerardo Canio: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Luigi Cecco: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Alessandro Giocoli: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Sergio Grauso: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Luigi Porta: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Sandro Martini: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Maurizio Pollino: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Ivan Roselli: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Alessandro Zini: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2016, vol. 81, issue 2, No 4, 759-777

Abstract: Abstract This study presents a first-level spatial assessment of the susceptibility to earthquake-induced landslides in the seismic area of the Agri Valley (Basilicata Region, southern Italy), which hosts the largest onshore oilfield and oil/gas extraction and pre-treatment plant in Europe and is the starting point of the 136-km-long pipeline that transports the plant’s products to the refinery located in Taranto, on the Ionian seacoast. Two methodologies derived from the ones proposed by Newmark (Geotechnique 15(2):139–159, 1965) and Rapolla et al. (Eng Geol 114:10–25, 2010, Nat Hazards 61:115–126, 2012. doi: 10.1007/s11069-011-9790-z ), based on different modelling approaches, were implemented using the available geographic information system tools, which allowed a very effective exploitation of the two models capability for regional zoning of the earthquake-induced landslide hazard. Subsequently, the results obtained from the two models were compared by both visual evaluation of thematic products and statistical correlation analysis of quantitative indices, such as the Safety Index based on the Newmark’s approach and the Susceptibility Index from Rapolla’s model. The comparison showed a general agreement in highlighting the most critical areas. However, some slight differences between the two models’ results were observed, especially where rock materials and steep slopes are prevailing.

Keywords: Earthquake-induced landslides; Spatial modelling; Level 1 regional zoning; GIS processing; Lifelines and oil pipelines; Hydrogeological instabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11069-015-2104-0 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:81:y:2016:i:2:d:10.1007_s11069-015-2104-0

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11069

DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-2104-0

Access Statistics for this article

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards is currently edited by Thomas Glade, Tad S. Murty and Vladimír Schenk

More articles in Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards from Springer, International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().