{"paper":{"title":"Slider-Block Friction Model for Landslides: Application to Vaiont and La Clapiere Landslides","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"cond-mat.stat-mech","authors_text":"A. Helmstetter (Univ. Grenoble), CNRS-Univ. Nice), D. Sornette (UCLA, J.-R. Grasso (Univ. Grenoble), J. V. Andersen (Univ. Nanterre, Nice), S. Gluzman (UCLA), V. Pisarenko (Russian Acad. Sci.)","submitted_at":"2002-08-21T16:03:44Z","abstract_excerpt":"Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found empirically to follow a time-to-failure power law, corresponding to a finite-time singularity of the velocity $v \\sim 1/(t_c-t)$ [{\\it Voight}, 1988]. Here, we provide a physical basis for this phenomenological law based on a slider-block model using a state and velocity dependent friction law established in the laboratory and used to model earthquake friction. This physical model accounts for and generalizes Voight's observation: depending on the ratio $B/A$ of two parameters of the rate and state friction law a"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"cond-mat/0208413","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}