Changes in ground deformation prior to and following a large urban landslide in La Paz, Bolivia, revealed by advanced InSAR

Roberts, Nicholas J.; Rabus, Bernhard T.; Clague, John J.; Hermanns, Reginald L.; Guzmán, Marco-Antonio; Minaya, Estela

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-679-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-679-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-679-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 3

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29 Mar 2019

Research article |

| 29 Mar 2019

Changes in ground deformation prior to and following a large urban landslide in La Paz, Bolivia, revealed by advanced InSAR

Nicholas J. Roberts, Bernhard T. Rabus, John J. Clague, Reginald L. Hermanns, Marco-Antonio Guzmán, and Estela Minaya

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La Paz, Bolivia, experiences frequent damaging landslides. We quantify creep before and after the city’s largest modern landslide using spaceborne InSAR. Creep of ancient landslide deposits increased in rate and extent following failure and extended into adjacent intact materials. Accelerated steady-state creep reflects complex post-failure stress redistribution. Landslide risk in La Paz, which is underlain by many large ancient landslides, may be even greater than previously thought.