SO244 GEOSEA: Geodesy at the seafloor: Investigating plate boundary deformation offshore Chile
ACRONYM
SO244 GEOSEA
Title
SO244 GEOSEA: Geodesy at the seafloor: Investigating plate boundary deformation offshore Chile
General information
Continental margins are increasingly used for wind parks, hydrocarbon extraction, pipelines, telecommunication cables, fishing, and mining. The increasing coastal population and new ventures in offshore human activities set new challenges to the assessment and mitigation of marine hazards. Submarine landslides, which have repeatedly caused devastating tsunamis and destroyed seabed infrastructure, are one of the most dangerous marine hazards. In contrast to earthquakes, where endangered areas are relatively well constrained and recurrence rates are often known from historic records, occurrence and timing of submarine landslides remain largely enigmatic. Therefore, hazard assessments for submarine landslides are more difficult than for other marine geohazards. Given the urgent need for improved hazard assessments, key future challenges are the identification of endangered areas, real-time monitoring of submarine slopes, and development of early warning systems. This project took a step towards monitoring of unstable submarine slopes and early warning by means of numerical modeling and analysis of in-situ seafloor deformation measurements from an active submarine landslide.
Start
July, 2015
End
January, 2018
Funding (total)
-
Funding (黑料视频)
493000
Funding body / Programme
-
BMBF
/ SONNE-Ausfahrt
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