8 June 2023 06:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal NHESS (Tamburini-Beliveau et al. 2023) has measured ground work instability at the Cóndor Cliff dam in Argentina.
Tags: argentina, construction, dam, featured, INSAR, monitoring, satellite, South America
8 June 2022 06:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Monday 6 June 2022 a slope failure struck a hotel located close to San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina, killing at least one person
Tags: argentina, engineered slope, featured, fill slope, landslide report, S. America, South America
12 January 2017 07:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last few days heavy rainfall has triggered a number of major landslides that have affected the towns of Volcan and Tumbaya in Argentina
Tags: argentina, lahar, landslide report, South America
24 January 2016 08:00 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An amazing video has appeared on youtube showing a debris flow on the flanks of Aconcagua in Argentina. It came very close to killing a group of trekkers
Tags: argentina, debris flow, featured, landslide video, South America
10 October 2018 06:46 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
News today of two large, developing slope instabilities, one at Diamante in Argentina and the other at Mannen, yet again, in Norway
3 February 2016 07:47 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Three new landslide videos, including a debris flow from Aconcagua, an earthflow from Muothatal in Switzerland and coastal erosion in Pacifica
Tags: argentina, california, debris flow, Europe, featured, landslide video, North America, Pacifica, South America, Switzerland, USA
27 January 2016 08:05 in Melanie by Dave Petley
Triggered by the Mw 6.2 Aysén earthquake in Chile on 21 April 2007, the Punta Cola rock avalanche has a volume of 22.4 million cubic metres
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, Melanie, rock avalanche, South America
20 January 2016 08:21 in landslide images by Dave Petley
High in the Andes in central Chile lies the Las Cortaderas Landslide complex, the most recent portion of which was triggered by an earthquake in 1958
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, rock avalanche, South America
9 July 2010 12:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Various media reports suggest that the rate of landslide activity has dramatically increased today on the slopes above the Attabad lake. For example, SAMAA is reporting that “Series of landsliding still continues in intervals in Ataabad, Hunza, causing difficutlties for the boat service, SAMAA reported Friday. Process of landsliding has started in intervals since last night in Hunza, Ataabad. Boat service however being continuing.” A key concern remains the potential …
Tags: Attabad, barrier lake, Hunza, landslide dam, pakistan
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 …
Tags: earthquake, south africa, world cup
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