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The landslide at the Port of Nice on October 16, 1979

Seed, H. Bolton; Seed, Raymond B.; Schlosser, François; Blondeau, Francis; Juran, Ilan

UCB/EERC-88/10, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-06, 74 pages (480.1/S43/1988)

The report is divided into the following sections: introduction, tidal wave effects, previous cases of coastal landslides, preliminary evaluation of failure mechanism, soil conditions in the slide area, liquefaction characteristics of Nice sand, analysis of slope stability in the area of the port slide, analysis of slope stability under conditions of water lowering due to a tidal wave, analysis of potential for slope instability due to liquefaction triggered by low-level vibrations, summary of results of slope stability analyses, examination of possible causes of the port slide, and conclusion.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-88-10.pdf (8 MB)