by Dave Petley
26 January 2023 07:54 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 19 July 2019, the large (3.92M cubic metre) Yahuokou landslide started to develop at Dongshan Town, Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, China
by Dave Petley
29 September 2022 06:43 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Tao et al. 2022) describes the very interesting causes of the 3 January 2022 landslide at a construction site at Bijie City in Guizhou Province, China, which killed 14 people.
by Dave Petley
6 September 2022 06:08 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 1 September 2022 a very major landslide occurred at Hongya Village in Qinghai Province in China, killing seven people.
by Dave Petley
4 August 2022 06:47 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 26 July 2016 a 3.1 million cubic metre landslide occurred at a high wall coal mine at Fushun in China, causing extensive damage. The failure is documented in a new paper (Sun et al. 2022) in the journal Landslides.
by Dave Petley
6 June 2022 07:49 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 10 June 2021 an extreme rainstorm triggered over 100 landslides, including a set of devastating debris flows, in the Wuxie scenic area in Zhejiang Province in China.
by Dave Petley
10 May 2022 06:54 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
A 25,000 cubic metre rockslide occurred at Bijie in Guizhou, China on 8 May 2022. Three people are reported to have been killed.
by Dave Petley
6 April 2022 06:55 in Mining, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
On 27 March 2022 a tailings dam failed at Wenquan Township, Shanxi Province, China. Satellite images from Planet reveal the scale of the event
by Dave Petley
2 November 2021 08:07 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
According to a new paper in the journal Landslides (Cheng, Yang and Du 2021), the 220,000 cubic metre 2017 Tonghua landslide in Sichuan Province, China was triggered by nearby blasting during tunnel construction.
by Dave Petley
28 October 2021 07:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal landslides uses InSAR data to show that the 21 July 2020 Shaziba landslide in Enshi, China was creeping in the years before the major failure
by Dave Petley
26 October 2021 07:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Liu et al. 2021) describes the complex 5 April 2021 Tiejiangwan landslide in Sichuan Province, China, which killed three people.
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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