The triggering factors of the Móafellshyrna debris slide in northern Iceland: Intense precipitation, earthquake activity and thawing of mountain permafrost

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Sæmundsson, Þorsteinn, Morino, Costanza, Helgason, Jón Kristinn, Conway, Susan, Pétursson, Halldór
• Other Authors: University of Iceland Reykjavik, School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences Milton Keynes, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Milton Keynes, The Open University Milton Keynes (OU)-The Open University Milton Keynes (OU), Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique UMR 6112 (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Icelandic Institute of Natural History
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Precipitation; Earthquake; Iceland; Permafrost; Debris slide; [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology; Árnesfjall; Torfufell; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02270621; https://hal.science/hal-02270621/document; https://hal.science/hal-02270621/file/HAL_Saemundsson_STOTEN_2018.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.111

International audience On the 20th September 2012, a large debris slide occurred in the Móafellshyrna Mountain in the Tröllaskagi peninsula, central north Iceland. Our work describes and discusses the relative importance of the three factors that may have contributed to the failure of the slope: int...