GIS in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Using GIS to study Seismic Slope Stability
http://www2.ced.berkeley.edu:8002/

Prepared by Bijan Khazai for the UCGIS Congressional Reception

A Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to develop a regional landslide susceptibility model. The model prompts the user for a design earthquake magnitude and fault for which the earthquake will rupture on. The user also has the option to change the default geotechnical parameters (cohesion, friction angle and unit weight) and specify a soil depth. The model will calculate landsliding displacements for wet and dry conditions in native ground.
 

DRY CONDITIONS
Oakland East Quadrangle
Newmark Displacements 
Hayward Fault, M = 7.0
 
WET CONDITIONS
Oakland East Quadrangle
Newmark Displacements 
Hayward Fault, M = 7.0
0 cm
0-5 cm
5-15 cm
15-25 cm
25-50 cm
50-100 cm
100-150 cm
no data

 
Webpage prepared June 1999.