26 January 2023 07:54 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 19 July 2019, the large (3.92M cubic metre) Yahuokou landslide started to develop at Dongshan Town, Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, China
Tags: china, featured, flow, Gansu, research, review of a paper
7 October 2019 06:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 5 October 2019, a 20,000 cubic metre landslide on the Heifangtei terrace in Gansu, China was successfully forecast based upon the monitoring of movement.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, loess, monitoring, prediction
17 July 2018 06:53 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 12th July 2018 a 5 million cubic metre landslide occurred at Nanyu township in Gansu Province, China, partially blocking the large Bailong River.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, Gansu, landslide report, valley-blocking landslided
27 September 2017 07:17 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper in the journal Engineering Geology, Qi et al. (2017) describe spectacular loess landslides from the Heifangtai terrace in China
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, flowslide, loess, research, review
26 July 2013 05:47 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Images have emerged of spectacular flowslides triggered by the Gansu earthquake this week, whilst 13 people have been killed bost post-seismic landslides today
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, flowslide
10 August 2010 12:12 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Xinhua has this morning dramatically increased estimated loss of life in the landslide at Zhouqu in Gansu Province, China. The latest toll is 702 known fatalities and a further 1,042 people missing.
Tags: china, Gansu, landslide report
8 August 2010 21:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Chinese State TV company has a new report (in Mandarin) that provides aerial footage of the Gansu landslide site. It is clear from the video that there are in fact two slides. The video is available via the link below (I have removed the embedded video as it played automatically): Video available here. The larger of the two slides is shown in this screen capture from the video: Strangely …
Tags: china, Gansu, landslide report, landslide video
8 August 2010 15:47 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Xinhua now reports that the death toll from the Gansu landslide is 127 people, with a further 1,294 people reported to be missing. So far just 28 people have been rescued alive. The BBC has published an image of the lower part of the slide: Note the water flooding the lower storey of the buildings in the background.
Tags: china, Gansu, landslide report
8 August 2010 10:38 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Xinhua has now published an image, apparently taken using a mobile phone, of the landslide in Chengguan town: It is now clear that the landslide affected Zhouqu town, which is shown on the Google Earth image below: Unfortunately, high resolution images are not available on Google Earth for this area. These two Panoramio photos give a good idea of what the town and adjacent mountains are like: Source Source
Tags: china, Gansu, landslide report
22 February 2019 07:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 17 February 2019 a >1 million cubic metre rockslide occurred at Longjin village in Guizhou Province. The failure was predicted using a monitoring system
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, monitoring, prediction
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