12 April 2010
The location of the Italian train crash landslide
Posted by Dave Petley
Thanks to David Bressan of the Cryology and Co blog for help in identifying the location of the landslide in Italy today that derailed a train, killing at least nine passengers. The location is (48.632N, 10.882E) is shown on this Google Earth image:
The landslide was small – only 400 cubic metres – but it doesn’t take much to derail a train if it happens at the wrong time and in the wrong place, as this Il Giornale image of the slide shows:
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.
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