Significance of substrate soil moisture content for rockfall hazard assessment

Vick, Louise Mary; Zimmer, Valerie; White, Christopher; Massey, Chris; Davies, Tim

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1105-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1105-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1105-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 5

Research article

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27 May 2019

Research article |

| 27 May 2019

Significance of substrate soil moisture content for rockfall hazard assessment

Louise Mary Vick, Valerie Zimmer, Christopher White, Chris Massey, and Tim Davies

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RC1: 'Review of "Significance of substrate soil moisture content for rockfall hazard assessment"', Greg Stock, 20 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Response to review', Louise M. Vick, 28 Mar 2019
RC2: 'Comments on paper by Vick et al. (manuscript nhess-2019-11)', Mark Eggers, 22 Apr 2019
- AC2: 'Response to review by Mark Eggers', Louise M. Vick, 04 May 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (06 May 2019) by Paola Reichenbach

AR by Louise M. Vick on behalf of the Authors (06 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 May 2019) by Paola Reichenbach

AR by Louise M. Vick on behalf of the Authors (10 May 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Rockfall boulders can travel long distances downslope, and it is important to predict how far fatalities can be prevented. A comparison of earthquake data from New Zealand during summer and full-scale rockfall experiments in the same soil during winter shows that during dry seasons boulders travel further downslope because the soil is harder. When using predictive tools, engineers and geologists should take soil conditions (and seasonal variations thereof) into account.