Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
The Institute of Earth Sciences is monitoring erosion dynamics in a study site in Draix (SE France), in cooperation with several other research groups, as part of Benjamin Rudaz’ PhD …
Erosion monitoring – Project Roubinette is operational Read MoreAndrianantenaina Rabemanantsoa Director: Prof. Michel Jaboyedoff Supervisor: Pierrick Nicolet Le but de ce projet est d’estimer de manière globale le risque lié aux glissements de terrain dans le canton de …
Andrianantenaina Rabemanantsoa: Analyse du risque liés aux glissements de terrain à l’échelle du canton de Vaud Read MoreTwo members of our group (Dr. Ivanna Penna and Dr. Antonio Abellán) have recently conducted several weeks field work research in the Andes and Pampeanas range (Argentina), in collaboration with …
Field work in the Andes and Pampeanas Range Read MoreAmenan Agnès Kouame (PhD student at UNIL) is working on the vulnerability to pollution of the aquifer of Abidjan. Abidjan is a 7 million inhabitants megacity, with several huge rubbish …
Abidjan’s aquifer vulnerability Read MoreA 100 tons, 40 m3, rock block struck a former sheepfold transformed into a chalet in the village of Isola in the night on February 23th 2014, in the French …
Rock crushes a chalet in French Alps Read MoreA 10 to 20 tons rock block, of the size of a car, struck a train in the French Alps on February 8th 2014 (Nice-Matin, Haute-Provence info). Two persons were …
Rock strucks a train in french Alps Read MoreAn exceptional rainfall period affected the sourthern part of France during mid-January. Rainfall caused flooding but also triggered numerous landslides, most of them occurring on January 17th. Ivanna Penna and …
Nice – Field visit Read MoreBeginning of December, Dario Carrea, Marc-Henri Derron and Michel Jaboyedoff visited the deep geological repository for nuclear fuel of Onkalo, on the island of Olkiluoto (Western Finland). Onkalo is the first …
Visit to the nuclear fuel repository of Onkalo (Finland) Read Moreby Pierrick Nicolet, Loris Foresti, Olivier Caspar and Michel Jaboyedoff: “Shallow landslide’s stochastic risk modelling based on the precipitation event of August 2005 in Switzerland: results and implications” Due to …
New publication in NHESS about landslide risk modeling Read More