Terrestrial Laser Scanner has been used to detect rock falls which have occurred in a limestone cliff during some years, in the difficult configuration of the Subalpine Chains. In a rock wall of width 750m and height 200 m, 130 rock falls larger than 0.1 ...

A new database of Alpine rock falls and rock avalanches has been established, based on the compilation and verification of published inventories, and on additional cases documented by project partners. All data are integrated in a database, with two information ...

In order to enhance the detection of prospective rock falls in calcareous cliffs, 25 rock falls have been described in a more detailed way than for an inventory. They are representative of middle size rock falls (10 to 100,000 m3) occurring in the French Subalpine ...

We study the rock fall volume distribution for three rock fall inventories and we fit the observed data by a power-law distribution, which has recently been proposed to describe landslide and rock fall volume distributions, and is also observed for many other ...

This study reviews seismograms from 10 rock-fall events recorded between 1992 and 2001 by the permanent seismological network Sismalp in the French Alps. A new seismic magnitude scale was defined, which allowed us to compare and classify ground-motion vibrations ...

<p>Terrestrial laser scanner has been used to detect rock falls greater than 0.01 m³ which have occurred during some years on a thin-bedded limestone cliff of the Subalpine Ranges, French Alps. Spatial- temporal rock fall frequencies have been determined ...