15 February 2016 07:00 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Sumner rockfalls – videos of the landslides triggered by the M=5.7 earthquake near to Christchurch in New Zealand yesterday
Tags: Australasia, Christchurch, earthquake, featured, New Zealand, rockfall
30 September 2015 06:58 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Demolition has started of properties damaged by landslides in the Port Hills area of Christchurch during the 2010-2011 earthquakes. This post shows some of the photographs that I took shortly afterwards.
Tags: Christchurch, earthquake, featured, New Zealand, rockfalls
3 October 2014 08:45 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper to be published in Geology reports on the use of dating techniques to evaluate the return periods of prehistoric earthquake triggered rockfalls near Christchurch in New Zealand
Tags: article, Christchurch, earthquake, New Zealand, paper, rockfalls
27 January 2014 06:00 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority will today start the process of demolishing the houses in the Port Hills that have been affected by, or are threatened by, rockfalls
Tags: Christchurch, earthquake, featured, New Zealand, rockfall
26 November 2012 01:51 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A series of reports on the level of life risk from rockfalls in the Port Hills area of Christchurch in New Zealand has now been released by the council
Tags: Christchurch, featured, New Zealand, risk, risk assessment, rockfall
24 November 2012 00:01 in presentation, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Tuesday I gave a talk at a Teachers First conference on Plate Tectonic hazards held in London. These events are the most enjoyable presentations that I give – school teachers are wonderfully knowledgeable, engaged and interesting. I promised the group that I’d make my talk available online via this site, so as usual it can be downloaded from Authorstream. The talk aims to provide some background on the plate …
23 December 2011 11:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report by Dave Petley
An update on the Christchurch earthquake sequence this morning
Tags: Christchurch, earthquake, featured, New Zealand, rockfall
9 December 2011 15:42 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide images by Dave Petley
As AGU 2011 draws to a close (and I still have some blog posts to write about the meeting), I need to try to catch up on a substantial backlog of landslide news. So, to start off, Monica Gowan from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch has sent these two pictures of the rockfalls as they occurred in the Sumner area of New Zealand on 13th June. Please note that …
Tags: Christchurch, earthquake, featured, landslide images, rockfall
8 September 2011 07:34 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide video by Dave Petley
Tow new videos showing rockfalls, triggered by clearance crews, in the Sumner area of New Zealand.
Tags: earthquake, New Zealand, rockfall, video
8 August 2011 01:13 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Images of the earthquake-damaged city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand
Tags: city, earthquake, featured, New Zealand
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