Interpretation of landslide distribution triggered by the 2005 Northern Pakistan earthquake using SPOT 5 imagery |
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| Authors: | Hiroshi P Sato Hiroyuki Hasegawa Satoshi Fujiwara Mikio Tobita Mamoru Koarai Hiroshi Une Junko Iwahashi |
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| Institution: | (1) Geography and Crustal Dynamics Research Center, Geographical Survey Institute, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305-0811, Japan;(2) Planning Department, Geographical Survey Institute, Tsukuba Ibaraki, 305-0811, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The 2005 northern Pakistan earthquake (magnitude 7.6) of 8 October 2005 occurred in the northwestern part of the Himalayas.
We interpreted landslides triggered by the earthquake using black-and-white 2.5-m-resolution System Pour l’Observation de la Terre 5 (SPOT 5) stereo images. As a result, the counts of 2,424 landslides were identified in the study area of 55 by 51 km. About
79% or 1,925 of the landslides were small (less than 0.5 ha in area), whereas 207 of the landslides (about 9%) were large
(1 ha and more in area). Judging from our field survey, most of the small landslides are shallow rock falls and slides. However,
the resolution and whitish image in the photos prevented interpreting the movement type and geomorphologic features of the
landslide sites in detail. It is known that this earthquake took place along preexisting active reverse faults. The landslide
distribution was mapped and superimposed on the crustal deformation detected by the environmental satellite/synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) data, active faults map, geological map, and shuttle radar topography mission data. The landslide distribution
showed the following characteristics: (1) Most of the landslides occurred on the hanging-wall side of the Balakot–Garhi fault;
(2) greater than one third of the landslides occurred within 1 km from the active fault; (3) the greatest number of landslides
(1,147 counts), landslide density (3.2 counts/km2), and landslide area ratio (2.3 ha/km2) was found within Miocene sandstone and siltstone, Precambrian schist and quartzite, and Eocene and Paleocene limestone and
shale, respectively; (4) there was a slight trend that large landslides occurred on vertically convex slopes rather than on
concave slopes; furthermore, large landslides occurred on steeper (30° and more) slopes than on gentler slopes; (5) many large
landslides occurred on slopes facing S and SW directions, which is consistent with SAR-detected horizontal dominant direction
of crustal deformation on the hanging wall. |
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| Keywords: | Earthquake Pakistan Landslide SPOT Interpretation Envisat SAR Kashmir Muzaffarabad |
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