17 January 2012
Two interesting landslide posts on other sites
Posted by Dave Petley
These two really interesting landslide stories have recently come to my attention. They are both worth a look:
1.The Nardi Road/Goulais River landslide
Ron Schott has a wonderful post on his blog about the Nardi Road/Goulais River landslide, which occurred on 13th October 2003 in Ontario. The post provides maps, photos and a detailed description, and all of the images (some of which, such as the one below, are remarkable) are available on Flickr:
2. Recording a huge submarine landslide
The Our Amazing Planet site has a write-up of a paper recently published in Geology in which a sea floor hydrophone recorded a submarine landslide, with an estimated volume of over 50 million cubic metres, on the seafloor to the north of Guam. This paper deserves a more detailed review, and is now on my list!


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.