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28 May 2018
Another landslide at the Ituango dam site in Colombia
On Saturday another landslide happened at the Ituango dam site. This was a smaller failure above a slope that has been cut and mitigated. 1500 workers were evacuated from the site, but no-one was injured. The integrity of the dam was not apparently threatened by this event.
23 May 2018
News and satellite imagery of the Hidroituango dam site
Satellite images captured by Planet Labs shows the evolving crisis at the Hidroituango dam site. The dam crest has now reached the spillway level, meaning that control of the water should become possible. 26,000 people remain displaced
21 May 2018
The Hidroituango crisis: complete evacuation of a number communities
The Hidroituango crisis in Colombia: a number of communities have now been evacuated, whilst operations to raise the crest of the dam continue. At the moment the situation appears to be mostly under control
Hidroituango: another landslide crisis at a hydroelectric dam
Over the last few days, a landslide crisis has developed at the Hidroituango Dam, a hydroelectric project on the Cauca River in Colombia
15 May 2018
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review Ten years ago the most destructive seismic event in a generation, the Wenchuan Earthquake, struck the Longmenshan in Siichuan Province in China. I covered the event on this blog – indeed on 12th May 2008, at 07:27 UT, 29 minutes after the Earthquake occurred, I wrote: “it is reasonable to assume that this earthquake will have triggered large numbers of …
11 May 2018
Mabian Yi: a massive landslide in China caught on video
On Saturday 5th May a spectacular landslide at Mabian Yi in Sichuan Province in China was caught on video. Fortunately there were no casualties
10 May 2018
Karongi: 18 people killed in a major landslide in Rwanda
On 6th May a major rainfall triggered landslide struck Bucyurabuhoro, in Karongi District in western Rwanda, killing 18 people and injuring a further 12.
4 May 2018
Chongqing: a dramatic rockfall video from China last month
The Chinese news agency Xinhua has posted a dramatic rockfall video from Chongqing in China on 9th April 2018. Despite two boulders very nearly hitting a pick-up truck no-one was killed or injured
2 May 2018
The 3 km long Ultar Glacier rock and ice avalanche – first satellite images
Planet Labs have now captured high quality imagery of the 3 km long Ultar Glacier rock and ice avalanche, which killed three people in northern Pakistan last month
1 May 2018
Caijiazhuang village: a cracking-sliding landslide that has killed nine people
Yesterday a landslide in loess at Caijiazhuang in Shanxi Province, China killed nine people. This landslide seems to be similar to the cracking-sliding landslides described in recent research
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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