Understanding the deadly landslides in the Durban area of South Africa
22 April 2022 06:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Earlier this month the Durban area of South Africa suffered landslides and floods that have killed at least 440 people.
22 April 2022 06:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Earlier this month the Durban area of South Africa suffered landslides and floods that have killed at least 440 people.
2 December 2020 07:21 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 17 November 2020 a major landslide occurred on a high wall at the Gamsberg mine in South Africa, killing two workers.
18 May 2020 06:52 in Database by Dave Petley
Data suggests that the recent high number of fatal landslides in East Africa may be associated with the state of the Indian Ocean Dipole
11 May 2016 09:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last few days there has been 3 large landslides in Africa, causing significant losses in Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda
13 April 2010 08:12 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Although this is meant to be a blog on landslides, occasionally things appear in other areas of natural hazards that are so irritatingly ridiculous that I just can’t let them go. And so in the last few days a story has been doing the rounds about earthquake risk to the forthcoming football World Cup in South Africa. For example, The Daily Star newspaper in the UK (not necessarily worth reading …
30 August 2008 03:16 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The award for the strangest landslide story of the week goes to this one, from southern Africa. Late last week reports started to emerge of strange tidal patterns around the southern Cape of Africa (Fig. 1). Fig. 1: Google Earth image of the southern Cape of Africa, showing the location of St Helena Bay and Plattenburg Bay. In particular, on 21st August at about 8:45 am (local time) a series …
16 May 2023 06:23 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet has been able to collect a set of SkySat images of the Lake Kivu landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
9 May 2023 05:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Thursday 4 May 2023, intense rainfall triggered a series of deadly mud and debris flows around Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing at least 401 people.
22 November 2022 07:36 in Mining by Dave Petley
Rubaya: there are reports that at least 32 people killed on 18 November by mining related landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo
8 November 2022 07:40 in Mining by Dave Petley
Another major tailings dam failure has occurred in Africa, this time at the Williamson Mine in Tanzania. The plume of pollution is >6 km long.
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