Seismic monitoring of soft-rock landslides: the Super-Sauze and Valoria case studies

Alice Tonnellier,1 Agnès Helmstetter,2 Jean-Philippe Malet,1 Jean Schmittbuhl,1 Alessandro Corsini3 and Manfred Joswig4 1Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7516, EOST, Université de Strasbourg, France. E-mail: alice.tonnellier@unistra.fr 2ISTerre, Université de Grenoble 1, CNRS, France 3Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra di Modena e Reggio Emilia, University of Modena, Italy 4Institut für Geophysik, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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