This workshop aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scientists to discuss outstanding questions that we need to answer to improve estimates of offshore ground motions, sediment transport, and seismic hazard based on turbidites and other MTDs (mass transport deposits).

Questions focus on understanding offshore ground motion site conditions; constraints or data needed for future slope stability analyses; the mechanics of sediment remobilization due to shaking; uncertainties in interpretations of sediment core stratigraphy; knowledge of flow dynamics, sediment supply, erosion and deposition, etc.

Discussions also will focus on currently available and future key measurements and insights from modeling (e.g., of hydrodynamical and multiphase flow).