The mudflow disaster at Villa Santa Lucía in Chilean Patagonia: understandings and insights derived from numerical simulation and postevent field surveys
Marcelo A. Somos-Valenzuela,Joaquín E. Oyarzún-Ulloa,Ivo J. Fustos-Toribio,Natalia Garrido-Urzua,and Ningsheng Chen
Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forest
Sciences, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco,
4780000, Chile
Butamallin Research Center for Global Change, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco, 4780000, Chile
Joaquín E. Oyarzún-Ulloa
Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco, 4780000, Chile
Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de La Frontera, Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Temuco, 4780000, Chile
Natalia Garrido-Urzua
Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria, Av. La Paz 406, Puerto
Varas, Región de los Lagos, 5550000, Chile
Ningsheng Chen
Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Processes, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
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This work presents a study of the biggest mudflow event in 20 years in Chilean Patagonia, which resulted from an avalanche in the Cordon Yelcho. We integrate in situ geotechnical tests and numerical modeling to model the Villa Santa Lucía mudflow event. Our results suggest that the initial soil water content is sufficient to transform the landslide and scoured soil into a mudflow. Therefore, knowing the soil characteristics is crucial to evaluating the impact of landslides in the study area.
This work presents a study of the biggest mudflow event in 20 years in Chilean Patagonia, which...