18 March 2015 07:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Historical accounts and recollections by local residents suggest that the site of the Yeager Airport fill slope failure may have a history of landslides
Tags: Charleston, featured, fill slope, USA, Yeager Airport
13 March 2015 08:08 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last two days a massive and very spectacular landslide has developed in a reinforced slope at the end of the runway at Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia
Tags: featured, fill, landslide report, reinforced earth slope, USA, West Virinia
8 June 2022 06:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Monday 6 June 2022 a slope failure struck a hotel located close to San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina, killing at least one person
Tags: argentina, engineered slope, featured, fill slope, landslide report, S. America, South America
3 June 2021 10:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Not all slope failures are large: examples of small but disruptive landslides in Sheffield
Tags: Emgland, Europe, images, landslide report, Sheffield, United Kingdom
5 July 2019 06:29 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Google Earth images suggest that the Aizawl landslide this week, which killed three people, occurred on a slope that had been cut during construction
Tags: featured, Google Earth, India, landslide report, slope engineering, South Asia
4 June 2018 07:16 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the last 24 hours there have been further developments at the Hidroituango dam site in Colombia. Monitoring suggests that movements of the slope continue, whilst concerns are being raised about low volume seepage from the dam
Tags: Colombia, dam, featured, hydroelectric, South America
3 December 2015 07:40 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A large cut slope failure was captured on video on the Eskoriatza – Vitoria motorway last week in Spain.
Tags: cut slope, Europe, featured, landslide report, landslide video, Spain
23 March 2015 13:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
It is now clear that the Yeager Airport slope failure was preceded by two years of deformation, with some signs of an increase in rate with time
Tags: featured, fill slope, landslide report, reinforced slope, USA
15 November 2009 21:29 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Probe International image of a landslide The Three Gorges Dam in China is one of mankind’s greatest achievements or a folly on a grand scale, depending upon your point of view. Whichever is correct, there is little doubt that its construction is an extraordinary engineering achievement. The final aim of the project was due to be achieved this month as the lake is finally elevated to its maximum level. However, …
25 April 2023 05:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 22 April 2023, a large landslide in a fill slope in Draper, Utah, destroyed two recently constructed houses. Two further houses have been evacuated.
Tags: featured, fill slope, landslide report, USA, Utah
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