Stability of the Hailuogou glacier during the“9.5”Luding Earthquake:a preliminary assessment based on multi-source observations

作     者：LIU Qiao ZHANG Bo ZHAO Bo ZHONG Yan LU Xue-yuan ZHOU Jian-min LIU Qiao;ZHANG Bo;ZHAO Bo;ZHONG Yan;LU Xue-yuan;ZHOU Jian-min

作者机构：Institute of Mountain Hazards and EnvironmentChinese Academy of SciencesChengdu 610299China Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene(C-CIA)Institute for Environmental SciencesUniversity of Geneva1205 GenevaSwitzerland Aerospace Information Research InstituteChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100094China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Mountain Science》 (山地科学学报（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第19卷第11期

页      面：3037-3050页

核心收录：

学科分类：070801[理学-固体地球物理学] 07[理学] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0705[理学-地理学] 070501[理学-自然地理学] 

基　　金：funded by the Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants Nos.41871069 and 42071084) Outstanding Youth Scholars Foundation of Sichuan Province(Grants No.2021JDJQ0009) 

主　　题：Luding Earthquake Mt.Gongga Glacier ice/snow avalanche Cryosphere hazards 

摘      要：On 5th September 2022,a magnitude Ms-6.8 earthquake occurred nearby ***,western *** stability of the glaciers in east *** close to the epicenter was widely concerned due to the strong shake triggered by the *** multi-source observations(including in-situ photographs,remote sensing datasets before and after the event),we carried out a preliminary assessment of the stability and hazard risks of the Hailuogou(HLG)*** by the earthquake,a small block of fractured ice at the lowest part of icefall *** magnitude of the coseismic ice avalanche was relatively small,which is comparable in size to most ice avalanches over the past seven years,but much less than the previous mapped largest one(03 April 2018,runout~699 m).One most recent large(runout~608 m)ice avalanche occurred between 01 and 04 September,just before the earthquake,likely unloaded large amount of ice mass and made a larger ice avalanche avoided during the earthquake ***,the momentum of collapsed snow-icerock mass could be safely unloaded over a wide and gentler-slope ice tongue area,limiting its mobility and the risk of a cascading ***-wide surface flow dynamics monitored by Sentinel-1 satellite SAR time series(12 September 2021–19 September 2022)show that HLG glacier velocity was generally consistent before and after the *** entire HLG glacier exhibited more stable than expected,with almost no abnormal features detected in its upper accumulation part,the lower ice tongue,and its lateral paraglacial *** the glacier valley has experienced remarkable downwasting and the paraglacial environment has been strongly disturbed and destabilized,we suggested that,to efficiently evaluate glacier-related cascading hazard risks,it is also necessary to systematically combine multi-source observations(e.g.,high-resolution UAV survey,radar/Lidar scan,ground investigation,monitoring and warning systems)to continuously monitor