21 January 2012
The ultimate compilation of the best landslide videos
Posted by Dave Petley
For a while I have been meaning to put together a compilation of the best landslide videos available on the internet. There is now a large number of these, so this will be a medium term project. However, I thought I’d post the first set, and then add to it through time.
Needless to say, I welcome suggestions for videos that I have missed.
1. Drawdown landslides at the Condit Dam
2. Rockfall at the Franz Joseph Glacier
3. Cliff collapse in Cornwall
See blog post here and update here
4. A pick-up truck being struck in Taiwan
5. Landslide in Uttarakhand, India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKID3LSOYrk
6. Landslide in Garwhal, India
7. Riverbank failure on the Mohawk River, USA
8. Intentionally-triggered rockfalls in Christchurch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_tZjT850qI
9. Reconstructing the Po Shan landslide in Hong Kong
10. Landslide at Merano in Italy
11. Pulsing debris flow in Pakistan
12. A landslide impacts a road in South Korea
13. Amateur footage of landslides in South Korea
14. A debris flow in Northern Italy
15. Two views of the Dalhousie landslide in India
16. A lucky escape for an excavator driver in New Zealand
I can’t embed this one – see the video here
17. A retrogressive landslide in Russia
Skip forward to the 5 minute 15 second point in the video:
18. Debris avalanche / Lahar on Mount Rainier
19. Two riverbank collapse videos
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.
I am really surprised that this didn’t make the list.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FZSTM3knaao
[Thanks – it is on the list for the next update – D.]
Or this example of another catastrophic landslide. http://youtube.com/watch?v=hgg1XhkIoig
I wish I had the unedited version of this, but the first 53 seconds of this is amazing. Another slide went down today in the same neighborhood. -Portland Geotech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mknStAMia0Q
This video of Maierato landslide (Calabria, Italy, February 15th 2010) may have a place in the compilation :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuCmQ-UDcFE
The event buried a part of Maierato but inhabitants have been evacuated as a precautionary measure (previous failures had been observed)
An footage of the event is also available here and provides an overview :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtYTbQecNE
The NASA Earth Observatory provides two interesting satellite images captured before and after the event :
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=43160
Otherwise, a friend took some photos of the landslide in July 2010, if anyone is interested.
[…] Just a quick post to highlight an excellent blogpost by my ex-supervisor at Durham University, Dr Dave Petley, showcasing some fantastic landslide videos. […]
Italy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R__3DYQCVnA&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJtYTbQecNE&feature=related
This is an astounding video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Q4VPZu1Bk
That’s amazing. Thanks for sharing!
Maierato, Italy -This one has narration!
another link for Italy (faster loading)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8517378.stm
Hi Lynn! Amazing video!
Excellent rockslide in the Ocoee Gorge in TN. Caught on tape as crews were cleaning up a few boulders in the road. Occurred early 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUXhjPkGBtU
Here’s my compilation list of landslide and mass flow videos, with duplicates of some already mentioned, and with many taken from your blog (thanks!). And many more thanks for all the rest of your efforts with respect to geological hazards.
Links for images and videos, and coordinates for cutting and pasting into Google Earth Search:
1A) Japan video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEbYpts0Onw&NR=1
1C) Second Japan video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiczROnfGbc&NR=1
1D) Failure in Manaus, Brazil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Lb3nseAhU&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLDCFC3882BCF680E7
1E) Collapse of building into a stream
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8202836.stm
2A) Varunawat, India
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IamLdh2O8Iw&feature=related rock falls
2B) Rockslide near Klamath River, Route 96, Oregon:
http://vimeo.com/9836643
3A) US 64, Ocooe Gorge, Tennessee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYGJYnJTi0&feature=player_embedded#!
To see the repairs, check out http://oxblue.com/pro/open/tdot/us64rockslide
3C)
http://www.geonet.org.nz/var/storage/images/media/images/landslide/landslide_glossary_classification_lge.gif/38125-1-eng-GB/landslide_glossary_classification_lge.gif.gif
http://www.zacksrocksandminerals.com/geology/images/Fig3grouping.jpg
4) Minidocumentary about a slide in Hong Kong. Go to http://hkss.cedd.gov.hk/hkss/eng/download/index.htm and click on the last video, the Poshan Incident, or http://hkss.cedd.gov.hk/hkss/eng/download/poshan_incident_english.wmv
or watch it embedded at http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-remarkable-animation-video-of-po.html
Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nvcs80Ty7WE , and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCX9NKdEwo for a second landslide at Sau Mau Ping
5) Either Google video “Maierato: frana, non servono parole!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7s2NrEg1Qg&feature=player_embedded
6A) Malaya, Pantai Remis tin mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ma0SVjMHA&feature=related
6G)
http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/sylvester/Teton_Dam/Teton%20Dam.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uqPR4Ir5o Failure of culvert under Freeport Road, Maine, probably by erosion through the fill around the pipe, starting by seepage & growing to piping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWEWVw7TGk4 model dam failure
7) Landslide in Dunedin, New Zealand.
http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/30-years-ago-abbotsford-landslide.html
Soledad Mountain Road in La Jolla, California, in 2007
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=11130308
8) Guatemala, December 2008: Cerro Los Chorros, San Christobal Verapaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA9irAazkfE&feature=related
Start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elpTkFHeTo&feature=player_embedded
2nd event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Q4VPZu1Bk&feature=related
Mexican 7.2 quake on 4 April 2010, at http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/dust-cloud-video-indicates-substantial.html
9) Nelson Road, Santa Cruz, Cal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw0aO1zVfkc
10) Pangi valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6pOdrBnCI&feature=related
11) Attabad landslide, Pakistan, at 36.309238 74.815414.
http://pamirtimes.net/2010/02/13/rare-video-of-attabad-landslide-as-it-occured/
For additional information and images, & images of the resulting landslide-dammed lake:
http://pamirtimes.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/landslide-hunzainayat.jpg
http://daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/detailed-information-and-amazing-images.html
http://hunzalandslide.blogspot.com/
The landslide can be seen at: http://pamirtimes.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/landslide-hunzainayat.jpg
The lake:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a2JvElU8gh4/S10u7q4gZPI/AAAAAAAACY8/UFS_iNyk5R4/s1600-h/10_01+attabad+2.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_a2JvElU8gh4/S7srbwVmvRI/AAAAAAAAClc/6xKHYbBv9jg/s1600/10_04+attabad+spillway.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKaKrvBR0Uc
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_a2JvElU8gh4/S8tewomHfAI/AAAAAAAACtc/sWahfJoTiNs/s1600/10_04+attabad+sinkhole.jpg
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2010/07/26/attabad-lake-level-stabilises-again/
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2011/01/04/attabad-one-year-on/
A landslide damming a small river (the Sultan River) in Washington:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu88wb6gROg&feature=related
12)
http://www.civildefence.govt.nz/memwebsite07.nsf/Files/Photo_library_landslide/$file/Mt%20Cook%201991.jpg
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/media/images/galleries/news/daily/20080124/large/20080124_22_gyi0051265993.jpg
13) Debris flows and related phenomena. USGS 1, 2, & 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpGP1uoCHr4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5nuwPVlHKU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rD_T8CBEVE&feature=related
14) 1 & 2 are repeats from #13
A) google video Eyjafjallajokull jokulhlaup, or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJII-u-41Lg
C) Debris flow on Clear Creek, Colorado:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKC3eID074&feature=player_embedded
D) 2006, Maipo valley, Chile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Lt0oPJFwA&NR=1
E) California, 2003: USE 240 P resolution, NOT 360!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr5uw_q3_7Q&feature=related
F) Kellick Creek, NSW, Australia,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIQrSH6LMgA&feature=related
G) Boscastle, Cornwall, England
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxweiRNlHbo&feature=related
H) Mass movement in Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51C7vEAVbxk
J) David Rankin’s video from Utah, @55-70 secs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKYY0jUUrHg&list=PL755EE86050B3021D&index=1&feature=plpp_video
K) Java lahar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEAfXO7q8Xs&feature=related
L) N of Ojai, California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOAbHOdvujM
M) Jeddah Saudi Arabia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsfPrTnV4k&feature=fvwrel
N) St Bernard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0L1ux_oTA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0yCmeOZT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re4y5rHvCy8&feature=related
P) illgraben
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIeNEJUXTVM&feature=related
K) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEAfXO7q8Xs&feature=related Java lahar
L) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOAbHOdvujM 40 miles N of Ojai, California
M) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsfPrTnV4k&feature=fvwrel Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
N) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0L1ux_oTA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0yCmeOZT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re4y5rHvCy8&feature=related Crue St Bernard
P) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIeNEJUXTVM&feature=related Illgraben
Q) David Rankin’s 2nd video, at start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDtBby7lJX0&list=PL755EE86050B3021D&index=3&feature=plpp_video
R) Collima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0POBOC68uw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97qdjCVHEUk&feature=related
15) La Conchita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4KWxglDL3o&feature=player_embedded
see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PF4Y3P88GQ&feature=related
16) Sarapiqui River, Costa Rica:
a) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HK8wW4SkWY&feature=player_embedded#!
b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTQjhcKlfXU&feature=player_embedded#!
17)
https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2009/11/30/slumps-caused-by-thawing-ground-on-mars-and-earth/
A) Google Mars -4.64, -86.19, ca. 120 km eye altitude
B) -6.69, -85.2 ca. 140 km eye altitude
18) Unzen pyroclastic flow from a dome collapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPRoTQYXwuY
19A) A pyroclastic flow at Merapi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz7WCttwXQk&feature=related
19B) Avalanches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0RWLxOFGLY
20) A tiny mudflow over snow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88819351@N00/2536342656/
21) Mer de glace debris flow, rockfall, clast-support, fine tail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK0ZtaDPzZw&feature=related
22) Eyjaflallajokull volcano, flooding. Google Video Eyjafjallajokull lahar jokulhlaup, or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fqa37GQmyA
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#17, the Russian landslide, has the first significant movement at about 5:08, not 5:15. There are hints of movement from about 4:45.
Here’s another link that could be added, a smallish shallow landslide:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu88wb6gROg
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