@article {Urgeles2013,
	title = {{Submarine landslides of the Mediterranean Sea: Trigger mechanisms, dynamics, and frequency-magnitude distribution}},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface},
	volume = {118},
	number = {4},
	year = {2013},
	month = {dec},
	pages = {2600{\textendash}2618},
	publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},
	abstract = {Submarine landslides are ubiquitous along Mediterranean continental margins. With the aim of understanding mass-wasting processes and related hazard at the scale of a large marine basin encompassing multiple geological settings, we have compiled data on their geometry, age, and trigger mechanism with a geographic information system. The distribution of submarine landslides in the Mediterranean reveals that major deltaic wedges have a higher density of large submarine landslides, while tectonically active margins are characterized by relatively small failures. In all areas, landslide size distributions display power law scaling for landslides > 1 km3. We find consistent differences on the exponent of the power law (${\th}eta$) depending on the tectonic setting. Available age information suggests that failures exceeding 1000 km3 are infrequent and may recur every \~{}40 kyr. Smaller failures that can still cause significant damage might be relatively frequent (failures > 1 km3 may recur every 40 years). The database highlights that our knowledge of submarine landslide activity with time is limited to a few tens of thousands of years. Available data suggest that submarine landslides may preferentially occur during lowstand periods, but no firm conclusion can be made on this respect, as only 70 landslides (out of 696 in the database) have relatively accurate age determinations. The temporal pattern and changes in frequency-magnitude distribution suggest that sedimentation patterns and pore pressure development have had a major role in triggering slope failures and control the sediment flux from mass wasting to the deep basin. Key Points Comprehensive catalog of submarine landslides in the Mediterranean Sea Geologic setting controls flux of sediment from submarine landslides Consolidation and fluid flow largely control submarine landslide initiation {\textcopyright}2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.},
	keywords = {frequency-magnitude, GIS, Mediterranean Sea, Submarine landslides, trigger mechanisms},
	issn = {21699003},
	doi = {10.1002/2013JF002720},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892999015\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Urgeles, Roger and Camerlenghi, Angelo}
}
@article {Chiocci2011,
	title = {{Seafloor mapping for geohazard assessment: state of the art}},
	journal = {Marine Geophysical Research},
	volume = {32},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2011},
	month = {may},
	pages = {1{\textendash}11},
	abstract = {During the last two decades, increasing use of full-coverage sonic mapping of the seafloor has made us more aware of the large and different number of seafloor processes and events bearing significant geohazard potential. This awareness combines with the increasing use of the seafloor for infrastructure and with the high density of population and settlement on the coast. Seafloor mapping is the first step in making a census of the geohazard-bearing features present in a given offshore area. It often provides the only tool for a comprehensive, although non-specific, seafloor geohazard assessment over large areas that are scarcely groundtruthed by acoustic prospection and seafloor sampling. However, the characterization of geohazard features on a morphological basis alone is limited, and more detailed investigations are needed to define the character and state of activity of potentially hazardous features. Such investigations include the use of deep-tow or autonomous platforms designed to acquire high-resolution data at depth as well as in situ measurements, both being very expensive activities not applicable over large areas. Thus seafloor mapping is often not only the first and the main but also the only tool for a comprehensive seafloor geohazard assessment. This special issue represents an example of the diversity of approaches to seafloor geohazard assessment and summarizes the present state of this discipline. Both the diverse technologies applied and the specific aims of offshore geohazard assessment brought different communities to deal with the study of seafloor processes and events from remarkably distinct viewpoints. We identified three end members in offshore geohazard assessment: (1) geohazard assessment "sensu stricto", (2) "engineering" geohazard assessment, (3) "non-specific" geohazard assessment. These are being conducted by industry, academia and public agencies in charge of civil protection and land-use planning and management. Understanding the needs and geohazard perception of the different groups is a necessary step for a profitable collaboration in such an interesting and rapidly developing field of marine geology. {\textcopyright} 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.},
	keywords = {Geological risks, Multibeam bathymetry, Natural hazards, Seafloor morphology, Submarine landslides},
	issn = {0025-3235},
	doi = {10.1007/s11001-011-9139-8},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79957484646\&partnerID=tZOtx3y1},
	author = {Chiocci, Francesco L. and Cattaneo, Antonio and Urgeles, Roger}
}
