24 August 2015 05:00 in landslide costs, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In my latest paper, written with Sergio Sepulveda, Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean, we look at ten years of human losses from landslides across this key area of the world.
Tags: Caribbean, featured, landslide database. paper, Latin America, review, South America
4 May 2022 06:23 in landslide report, Mining by Dave Petley
The residents of a community in the Claxton Bay area of Trinidad in the Caribbean are having their lives destroyed by a landslide
Tags: Caribbean, featured, landslide report, mine, mining, quarrying, Trinidad
4 April 2022 06:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Praia de Itaguaçu: one of a series of destructive landslides in Brazil On Saturday 2 April 2022 a series of landslides were triggered by heavy rainfall in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In total 16 people are known to have died, the majority of whom lost their lives in landslides. The picture is a little confused at the moment, but reports include a mudslide in the town …
Tags: brazil, featured, landslide report, South America
9 February 2022 08:28 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall triggered a large landslide in the town of Dosquebradas in Colombia yesterday, killing at least 16 people, injuring 34 more
Tags: Colombia, featured, landslide report, South America
24 October 2019 06:59 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Landslides in Mexico: a new study (Diaz et al, 2019) shows that landslides have caused at least 3447 fatalities since 1935.
Tags: fatalities, featured, landslide losses, Mexico, North America
18 December 2017 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday the village of Villa Santa Lucia in southern Chile was struck by a high mobility flow, killing at least 11 and leaving up to 15 people missing
Tags: Chile, featured, flow, landslide report, South America
1 August 2017 07:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A 50 cm high tsunami struck the Caribbean coast of Colombia at Santa Marta on 19th July 2017. The most likely cause was a submarine landslide.
19 April 2017 21:33 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Overnight there are reports of further deaths from landslides in Colombia. Data since 2004 suggests that landslides continue to inflict a high cost there
Tags: Colombia, database, fatalities, featured, landslide costs, South America
20 September 2016 06:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Like a zombie that refuses to die, the Canary Islands megatsunami scare story has once again re-emerged to the normal hysterical headlines
Tags: Canary Islands, Europe, featured, flank collapse, landslide report, tsunami, volcano
17 June 2016 07:03 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in the journal landslides, Haque et al (2016) present data on fatal landslides in Europe between 1995 and 2014
Tags: database, fatal, fatalities, featured, paper, review
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