3 March 2010
Landslides in Art Part 5
Posted by Dave Petley
I apologise for the lack of posts of late. I am currently in Pakistan to visit the Attabad landslide, courtesy of FOCUS Pakistan. I will post on that soon, and of course there has been a great deal happening in the landslide world whilst I have been in the field.
Anyway, this is the latest in my series on landslides in art. The previous parts can be found here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 (coastal erosion)
This edition of courtesy of the ever-helpful Sekhar Kuriakose of ITC in the Netherlands.
The artist in E.J Roychan, an artist from Kerala in India, now living in Saudi Arabia. The piece is called “Urul Pottal”, which means debris flow, in Malayalam. Sekhar describes the genesis of the piece as follows:
“He is a very good friend of mine. He got inspired by my work on landslides and contemplated and created this piece for me.”
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Hello Prof Petley,I thought I would forward you a news story link to an accident involving a 200m Cruise Ship that was hit by 3 waves of 8m height causing 2 deaths and multiple injuries. This was apparently in Western Med. Sea. No comment on cause in story. Undersea slide???I realize you are out of country- Take care and keep up the good/hard work, it is appreciated! Sincerely, John O. http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item;=100304123917.cwd8agv5.php
Hello John OMuch more likely to have been caused by one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_waveAn undersea slide would have been picked up by seismographs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBUTIV7O6nk