San Antonio de Prado: a high mobility landslide in Colombia
14 July 2022 08:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Wednesday 13 July 2022 a major landslide occurred at San Antonio de Prado in Medellin, Colombia, killing at least two people
14 July 2022 08:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Wednesday 13 July 2022 a major landslide occurred at San Antonio de Prado in Medellin, Colombia, killing at least two people
7 April 2022 07:55 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in the journal Landslides (Garcia-Delgado, Petley et al. 2022), we have examined the history of fatal landslides in Colombia. The results are quite surprising.
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
8 November 2021 07:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 2 November 2021 a landslide at Mallama in Nariño province, Colombia killed 17 people.
4 May 2021 07:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 3 May 2021 a large landslide occurred at a landfill site in Caldas, Colombia, partially blocking the Medellin River
25 February 2020 07:13 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Spatial and temporal patterns of landslide losses in Colombia Back in 2012 I posted about the levels of landslide losses in Colombia, which is one of the most landslide prone countries, based on my fatal landslide database. I noted that levels of loss are high, especially in the western side of the country, and that Colombia needs to be a priority country if we are to reduce loss worldwide. It …
28 May 2018 05:37 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Saturday another landslide happened at the Ituango dam site. This was a smaller failure above a slope that has been cut and mitigated. 1500 workers were evacuated from the site, but no-one was injured. The integrity of the dam was not apparently threatened by this event.
19 February 2018 07:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The village of Puerto Venus in Antiquio, Colombia was struck by a massive debris flow last week. Early indications are that this may have been the result of the breach of a valley-blocking landslide upstream at El Piñal
9 November 2017 07:29 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Corinto in Colombia: first satellite images from Planet Labs of the mudflow that has killed 4 and left 18 people missing on Tuesday
12 August 2017 00:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In July the very interesting La Calera landslide near to Bogota in Colombia activated in response to rainfall, partially blocking the Rio Blanco
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