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
12 December 2022 06:58 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Save The Hills has produced two wonderful films documenting the impact of a landslide on the village of Pathing in Northern India. The videos highlight the scale of losses that the residents of this remote village are facing.
Tags: featured, India, landslide impacts, landslide report, landslide video, NGO, Save the Hills, South Asia
28 October 2022 06:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 15 November 2021 2021 Duffey Lake landslide in Canada: the role of old logging roads in triggering slope failures
Tags: British Columbia, Canada, featured, highway, logging, road
11 July 2022 06:55 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Naina in Khaptad, Nepal: the terrible impacts of low quality, poorly-engineered roads in high mountain areas
Tags: featured, highway, low cost road, mountain road, nepal, South Asia
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
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