23 February 2023 06:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Vila Sahy, São Paulo: about 600 mm of rainfall in 12 hours, including a peak intensity of 10 mm/hr, has triggered multiple fatal landslides.
Tags: brazil, featured, landslide report, urban landslide
11 March 2022 08:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In recent days, very extreme rainfall has affected eastern Australia. At Main Arm in New South Wales, a major landslide has occurred.
Tags: australia, featured, La Nina, landslide report
16 July 2021 13:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Inden: a river rediscovering a previous course and flooding an open cast coal mine The floods in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands this week have been truly catastrophic. The same storm system also caused flash flooding in London. It is likely that the this event will have triggered landslides, but we will need to wait to get more information when the priority is rescue and recovery. There are suggestions that an …
Tags: Europe, featured, flood, flooding, Germany
25 January 2021 08:32 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Large glacier-related landslides in high mountain areas are increasing with time, according to a new study (Liu et al. 2021)
Tags: Asia, climate change, featured, glacier, global heating, high mountains
2 January 2021 11:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Mount Silberhorn – a large rockslide has occurred in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, close to Aoraki/Mount Cook, in the last few days
Tags: featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rock avalanche, rockslide
17 November 2020 08:31 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Mount Eagle: over the weekend another peat slide occurred in the Republic of Ireland, this time in County Kerry
Tags: bog, Europe, featured, Ireland, landslide report, peat
6 November 2020 08:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Hurricane Eta: news reports indicate that dozens of people have been killed by landslides in Central America, with at least 50 deaths in Guatemala alone
Tags: Central America, costa rica, featured, Guatemala, Honduras, hurricane, landslide report, Nicaragua, Panama
28 August 2020 08:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 26 August 2020 debris flows induced by intense rainfall hit Charikar in Afghanistan, killing at least 100 people.
Tags: Afghanistan, debris flow, featured, landslide report, western Asia
29 July 2020 11:12 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new article in the journal Landslides (Li et al. 2020) describes the Niushou landslide in Jiangsu, China, which was triggered by construction works for a hotel complex.
Tags: case study, china, construction, East Asia, featured, paper, research
22 May 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As improved images and information become available, it is becoming possible to gain a better understanding of the cause of the Edenville Dam breach
Tags: breach, dam, featured, flood, Michigan, North Aerica, Planet Labs, USA
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