1 October 2021 06:48 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides presents a new inventory of slow-moving landslides for the Pacific Northwest, derived from InSAR. 617 active landslides that had not previously been identified were mapped.
Tags: featured, INSAR, inventory, North America, slow-moving landslides, USA
8 April 2021 08:34 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Shuicheng County in Guizhou Province in China: InSAR as a wide area landslide detection tool
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, INSAR, research, review of a paper, satellite
13 December 2018 07:18 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Late in November the Geological Survey of Norway launched InSARNORWAY, a new national level deformation map for the whole of the country
8 February 2018 08:30 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
In a new paper in Engineering Geology, Carla et al (2018) demonstrate how a combination of ground-based radar and INSAR could have been used to predict a major landslide in a copper mine
Tags: featured, INSAR, landslide monitoring, mine, mining, monitoring, radar
22 February 2022 07:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study has found increased landslide activity in the months after the low-magnitude 2018 Molise earthquake in Italy
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, research, review of a paper
14 February 2022 07:53 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Recent exceptionally heavy rainfall has triggered two large landslides in the Southern Alps of New Zealand.
Tags: featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rock avalanche, satellite imagery
10 November 2021 07:44 in Mining by Dave Petley
A satellite image from Planet Labs shows the aftermath of a c.700 m landslide at the Ministro Hales mine in Chile between 8 and 9 November 2021. Thanks to @Geo_Risk for spotting this one.
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide report, mine, mining, South America
2 November 2021 08:07 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
According to a new paper in the journal Landslides (Cheng, Yang and Du 2021), the 220,000 cubic metre 2017 Tonghua landslide in Sichuan Province, China was triggered by nearby blasting during tunnel construction.
Tags: china, debris slide, East Asia, featured, landslide report, research, review of a paper, sichuan
29 October 2021 07:28 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A remarkable video from the Cumbre Vieja eruption on La Palma shows the high level of mobility of an almost spherical boulder moving on a slope with few obstructions. Indiana Jones could face a greater hazard is Raiders of the Lost Ark is ever remade.
Tags: boulder, boulder roll, Europe, featured, La Palma, landslide video, Spain, twitter
28 October 2021 07:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal landslides uses InSAR data to show that the 21 July 2020 Shaziba landslide in Enshi, China was creeping in the years before the major failure
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, INSAR, monitoring, paper, research
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