Soil Liquefaction Susceptibility Assessment of Mozdok City (North Ossetia, Russia)

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10.2991/ciggg-18.2019.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

liquefaction; urban areas; susceptibility; shear wave velocity

Abstract

Urban areas lying in the alluvial soil are usually prone to a threat of liquefaction even during moderate earthquakes. Liquefaction is the measure of vulnerability of saturated sediment to thickening (compaction) during earthquake and thus to pore water pressures generation (formation) sufficient to cause possible ground instability or failure. The buildings which are constructed over the liquefiable soil are more vulnerable to the vibrations of a potential earthquake. The territory of the North Caucasus is characterized by high density of population and a high level of seismic hazard. Liquefied soils are also presented here. But the earthquake effect depends on the water table and level of seismic loadings. Despite the absence of historical data on liquefaction on this territory, there are soil conditions in new regions with a possible liquefaction behavior during strong earthquakes. Mozdok city with seismic potential M=5.0 for Mozdok Eastern seismic fault is considered in the paper. The major part of the Mozdok city covered by the Recent Alluvial soil with a shallow water table, which is more vulnerable during earthquake shaking and quiet enough to trigger liquefaction. In this regard, a study carried out to understand the liquefaction susceptibility of soil in the cities using geotechnical data. A liquefaction susceptibility assessment method was adopted for Mozdok city. Seismic refraction survey is widely used in Russia rather than SPT, and calculations were made on the basis size of shear velocity Vs. As a result, about 90% of the territory of Mozdok city is liquefiable. The present study can be an eye-opening for urban planners and decision-makers and emergency responders for future developmental planning activity.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - G.P. Ganapathy
AU  - V.B. Zaalishvili
AU  - D.A. Melkov
AU  - B.V. Dzeranov
AU  - Yu.K. Chernov
AU  - A.S. Kanukov
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - Soil Liquefaction Susceptibility Assessment of Mozdok City (North Ossetia, Russia)
BT  - Proceedings of the VIII Science and Technology Conference “Contemporary Issues of Geology, Geophysics and Geo-ecology of the North Caucasus” (CIGGG 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 97
EP  - 101
SN  - 2352-5401
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DO  - 10.2991/ciggg-18.2019.18
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