ABSTRACT
Exploitation of offshore resources, development of communication and transport corridors, fishing habitat protection, and the protection of coastal communities, have contributed to a growing interest in improved understanding of offshore geohazards, in particular seafloor mass movements and their consequences. Figure 1 shows the main offshore geohazards that might pose a threat to offshore installations and people and infrastructure along the coastlines. This figure shows the complexity of submarine mass movements risk assessment studies, which are far from the more simplistic view put forward in one of the first approaches to risk assessment by Favre et al. (1992).
