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In 1996 Saguenay region of Quebec, Canada has suffered from the major flood that filled up the Saguenay Fjord with a few cubic kilometers of sediment. Two weeks of heavy rains were withering for the graben region, the sediments covered the most of fjord bottom, forming a capping layer. The Saguenay Fjord was already heavily contaminated and the situation got worse with the new flow of sediments. In a few hours a monthly norm of rain fell on the region that caused serious landslides in the Upper Seguenay Fjord.
Eariler, in 1988 there was a powerful Saguenay earthquake that broke the landscape structure and made the land vulnerable to floods effect. To prevent the territories from the worst consequences of possible seismic activity, there was held a study that tried to analyze the potential deformations of the relief caused by various seismic scenarios that could cause sediment landslides move. In the Newmark analysis the seismic activity of the areas was assessed and all the possible risks were analyzed and evaluated. The calculations are based on the slope gradients evaluated from EM1000 multibeam bathymetry data.
The numbers used in the study also included the information about water content and measurements of undrained shear strength. The motions of the relief were modeled with the help of artificial time history. The study conclusion shows that the territory of the Saguenay earthquake happened in 1988 is a potential source area of considerable ground motions for the Upper Saguenay areas. The study also included the analysis of a number of shaking intensities in order to see what damage can be caused if the earthquake with specific intensity will ever happen in the region. The analysis of magnitudes higher than 6 showed that the moment magnitudes of 6.75 can cause major displacements followed by serious failure and landslides.
In 1996 Saguenay region of Quebec, Canada has suffered from the major flood that filled up the Saguenay Fjord with a few cubic kilometers of sediment. Two weeks of heavy rains were withering for the graben region, the sediments covered the most of fjord bottom, forming a capping layer. The Saguenay Fjord was already heavily contaminated and the situation got worse with the new flow of sediments. In a few hours a monthly norm of rain fell on the region that caused serious landslides in the Upper Seguenay Fjord. Eariler, in 1988 there was a powerful Saguenay earthquake that broke the landscape structure and made the land vulnerable to floods effect. To prevent the territories from the worst consequences of possible seismic activity, there was held a study that tried to analyze the potential deformations of the relief caused by various seismic scenarios that could cause sediment landslides move.
In the Newmark analysis the seismic activity of the areas was assessed and all the possible risks were analyzed and evaluated. The calculations are based on the slope gradients evaluated from EM1000 multibeam bathymetry data. The numbers used in the study also included the information about water content and measurements of undrained shear strength. The motions of the relief were modeled with the help of artificial time history. The study conclusion shows that the territory of the Saguenay earthquake happened in 1988 is a potential source area of considerable ground motions for the Upper Saguenay areas. The study also included the analysis of a number of shaking intensities in order to see what damage can be caused if the earthquake with specific intensity will ever happen in the region. The analysis of magnitudes higher than 6 showed that the moment magnitudes of 6.75 can cause major displacements followed by serious failure and landslides.
