21 September 2022 06:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 1 September 2022 a very large rock/ice avalanche occurred on the Ecstall River in British Columbia, Canada.
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22 March 2022 07:27 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Scud Glacier: aerial images of the 2020 rock avalanche in British Columbia in Canada.
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22 November 2021 07:30 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Over the last few days new sets of images have been posted online of the enormous impact of the landslides that affected parts of British Columbia a week ago, caused by an exceptional rainfall event.
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16 November 2021 07:38 in landslide report by Dave Petley
An atmospheric river rainfall event on Sunday and Monday caused large numbers of landslides in British Columbia, Canada.
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29 December 2020 10:24 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Taku River: another very large landslide in British Columbia, Canada. A Facebook user, Darryl Keith Tait, has posted images and video of the aftermath of a huge rockslope failure.
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25 October 2018 06:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Old Fort landslide in British Columbia is an 8 millon cubic metre earthflow that has caused the evacuation of the village of Old Fort
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24 March 2017 08:00 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published, Clayton et al. (2017) describe the Mitchell Creek landslide, a very large rockslide in Canada triggered by glacial debuttressing
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24 September 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Pemberton Portage Road landslide was a channelised debris flow, triggered by heavy rain, that destroyed a house in Birken, BC, Canada on Sunday
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6 August 2010 20:39 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thanks to Robin Beech for the heads-up on this one. CBC News is reporting a large landslide at Meager Creek, a hot springs area north of Pemberton: “A two-kilometre-wide landslide has been reported near Meager Creek Hot Spring, about 95 kilometres north of Pemberton, B.C. The flow of rock and soil debris has covered a river in the area, causing water to become dammed upstream of the slide. Authorities say …
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14 June 2010 08:17 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thanks to a number of people for bringing this one to my attention. The community of Oliver in British Columbia yesterday suffered an impressive mud and debris flow that is reported to have destroyed five homes (images from the Vancouver Sun): The flow has clearly come out of a deeply incised gully in the mountains: A perspective view of the excellent Google Earth imagery of this area is rather helpful: …
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