15 October 2012
An easy Monday morning – a fantastic cliff collapse video from New Zealand
Posted by Dave Petley
Thanks to Lee Peterson for doing the leg work on this video. This is a rockfall that occurred at Nevis Bluff in New Zealand in September 2000:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF6NM-V1IEU
If the link doesn’t work (seems to be the case with Macs sometimes) try here.
Such cliff collapses are a real and live problem in New Zealand. This remarkable rockfall occurred on the road to Milford Sound on Friday:
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.