11 January 2023 07:53 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A very large, unusual landslide has occurred in Rosas, Cauca in Columbia, displacing over 700 people and closing the Pan American Highway
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20 November 2022 09:45 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Satellite imagery from Planet Labs provides insights into the El Molino landslide in Norte de Santander, Colombia
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14 November 2022 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 10 November 2022 a 5 km long landslide occurred at El Molino in Villa Caro, Santander in Colombia, killing five people.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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