Professor Morelia Urlaub

Submarine landslides can be major geohazards as they can destroy seabed infrastructure, such as telecommunications cables, and can trigger tsunamis. For the purposes of hazard assessment and mitigation, we need to understand why, where and how they occur. In this talk, I will present the different types of submarine mass movements, summarise our current understanding, explain why we have so far failed to monitor a submarine landslide in progress, and outline potential future research directions.