19 November 2018 07:53 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new Youtube videos show dramatic roadside failure events. One shows a landslide on a quarry haul road whilst the other shows a joint controlled rockfall
Tags: featured, India, landslide video, nepal, quarry India, road, South Asia
1 February 2013 09:48 in Development by Dave Petley
Landslides are a major problem along roads in high mountain areas. This is illustrated using an example from rural Nepal, in which the construction of a rural road has induced multiple landslides, threatening the local communities.
Tags: featured, Google Earth, landslide report, nepal, road, road construction, rural road
18 January 2022 08:11 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Arhavi, Turkey: a new paper in the Journal Natural Hazards (Tanyaş et al. 2022) shows that landslide impacts of new roads can be comparable to that of a medium sized earthquake
Tags: Asia, featured, research, review of a paper, road, road construction, Turkey
25 October 2021 06:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall in Nepal has triggered a large rockslide, captured on video, in Pyuthan, Nepal. The video shows a rapid, wedge-type of failure.
Tags: featured, landslide video, nepal, rockslide, South Asia, wedge
18 October 2021 06:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall in Kerala, SW India, since Friday has triggered landslides and floods that have killed at least 26 people.
Tags: featured, India, Kerala, landslide report, monsoon
2 August 2021 09:38 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Melamchi – satellite images and helicopter videos start to explain the catastrophic floods in Nepal in June 2021
Tags: featured, flood, landslide dam, nepal, Planet Labs, satellite image, South Asia
9 July 2021 08:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The start of the 2021 summer monsoon in Nepal has brought unusual levels of rainfall. So far at least 27 people have been killed in landslides
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
2 July 2021 07:18 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Satellite images collected by Planet Labs appear to confirm that a landslide dam was the cause of the 14 June 2021 Melamchi disaster in Nepal
Tags: featured, landslide dam, monsoon, nepal, Planet Labs, South Asia
10 March 2021 08:37 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new open access paper in the journal Progress in Disaster Science (Rosser et al. 2021) demonstrates that the number of landslides in W. and C. Nepal has increased since the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.
Tags: earthquake, featured, monsoon, nepal, paper, research, South Asia
19 February 2021 08:56 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
New research (Muñoz-Torrero Manchado et al. 2021), published in Landslides, investigates trends in landslides and landslide losses in W. Nepal over three decades. It highlights the key role of human factors in determining patterns of loss
Tags: featured, monsoon, nepal, paper, research, South Asia
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