Measuring Electromagnetic Emissions from Active Landslides

Abstract

The paper describes the mechanism of electromagnetic emission generation in active landslides and measuring techniques. Special attention is given to electromagnetic emission fields. The author proposes an original system for measuring both continuous and pulsed magnetic emission of landslides. For such measurements boreholes must be drilled in the landslide. It is essential that the tubing constituting the borehole’s lining be made of a material which does not attenuate magnetic fields. Besides its primary function, i.e. the registration of landslide magnetic field activity, the system can be used for the structural inhomogeneity of rock strata examination subjected to considerable stresses. The results of examinations of active and inactive landslide in Poland are presented. The post-extraction cave in the SMZ Jelsava Mine in Jelsava, Slovakia, is presented too.

Keywords

• electromagnetic emission
• landslide
• sliding-down force
• slip plane
• slope stability