3 August 2023 07:22 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video posted to social media shows three people having a very lucky escape from a debris flow in Arunachal Pradesh, northern India.
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, South Asia
25 July 2023 06:58 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Thanks to @Rock_Avalanches and @Planet, the location of the 20 July 2023 debris flow at Ungar in Lhuentse, Bhutan has now been identified.
Tags: Bhutan, featured, landslide report, planet, Planet Labs, satellite, South Asia
24 July 2023 08:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
An update on the 19 July 2023 Irshalwadi landslide in India and the 20 July 2023 debris flow at Ungar in Bhutan
Tags: Bhutan, featured, India, landslide report, monsoon, South Asia
19 July 2023 06:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The devastating 17 July 2023 debris flow at Quetame in Colombia, which killed at least 14 people including three children.
Tags: Colombia, debris flow, featured, landslide report, South America
25 May 2023 07:07 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 14 May 2023 debris flow at Johnston Ridge Observatory Access Road, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington State, USA
Tags: featured, highway, landslide report, North America, USA, washington
9 May 2023 05:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Thursday 4 May 2023, intense rainfall triggered a series of deadly mud and debris flows around Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing at least 401 people.
Tags: channelised debris flow, debris flow, Democratic Republic of Congo, featured, landslide report, mudflow
15 March 2023 08:02 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 11 March 2023 a large debris flow occurred close to Lago Riesco in the Aysen region of southern Chile, triggered by heavy rainfall.
Tags: Chile, debris flow, featured, landslide report, South America
25 January 2023 08:00 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Yan et al. (2023) discuss the 30 August 2020 debris flow at Azijue village in Sichuan, China, which killed three people and destroyed two villages. The losses were caused by an unusual secondary failure of ancient deposits in the channel bed.
Tags: china, debris flow, featured, review of a paper, sichuan
23 December 2022 10:45 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
An open access paper in the journal Landslides (Cabral et al. 2022) analyses debris flows in Brazil over the last century, finding that 45 events have killed 5,771 people and generated US$5,5 billion in economic losses.
Tags: brazil, featured, research, review of a paper, South America
27 October 2022 06:16 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Yucaipa: a remarkable debris flow video from the San Bernardino Mountains in California. The flows were triggered by heavy rainfall in the El Dorado fire scar on 12 September 2022
Tags: California. USA, debris flow, featured, landslide video, mudflow
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