28 March 2014 10:16 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Seismic data indicates that the Oso (Steelhead) landslide was a two phase movement event. Sadly attention is now focused on the recovery of the remains of the victims rather than on a rescue operation
Tags: featured, landslide report, mudflow, mudslide, Oso, rotational landslide, seismic, USA, washington
24 March 2014 08:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As the toll from the Oso landslip rises, this post provides some useful resources from a variety of blogs
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31 October 2008 08:30 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Seattle is an area that has both a long history of landslides and a long history of landslide research. For example, there is a 1974 USGS report online examining landslides triggered in a 1972 rainfall event. In 1996-7 a series of large storms triggered multiple damaging slides in Seattle. As a result, the USGS and Seattle agreed to start a major project to produce a range of landslide hazard maps …
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29 January 2018 07:57 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The Rattlesnake Hills rockslide in Washington State continues to creep at an approximately constant rate. The key challenge now is to determine whether the slide can transition into a rapid failure eventThe Rattlesnake Hills rockslide in Washington State continues to creep at an approximately constant rate. The key challenge now is to determine whether the slide can transition into a rapid failure event
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22 August 2017 23:35 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In July the Zuta Village landslide in Hunan Province, China killed nine people. This was another spectacular example of a high mobility landslide
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, flow, landslide images, landslide report, liquefaction
5 May 2017 06:54 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The Van Zandt landslide in Washington State: the value of LIDAR for mapping landslides in densely vegetated and difficult landscapes
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11 October 2016 07:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Sixth Tone has published two articles evaluating the missed opportunities to prevent the Sucun landslide disaster in China, which killed 27 people last week
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, hazard, landslide report, risk
5 May 2014 08:19 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As better information emerges about the Ab Barak landslide in Afghanistan on Friday, it has become clear that the event was foreseeable with a simple study
Tags: Ab Barak, Afghanistan, featured, landslide report, loess
24 April 2014 10:44 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Landslide losses in the USA have come into focus in light of the slides at Oso and Jackson Hole. At present, investment in national scale landslide programmes in the US is extraordinarily low.
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