Progressive Rock Failure – a meeting in Switzerland in June 2017
14 December 2016 21:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
ETH in Zurich is organising a very exciting symposium on Progressive Rock Failure in June 2017 in Monte Verità, Switzerland
14 December 2016 21:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
ETH in Zurich is organising a very exciting symposium on Progressive Rock Failure in June 2017 in Monte Verità, Switzerland
8 September 2015 05:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Dorset in southern England, a complex progressive landslide is developing on the Weare Cliffs on the Isle of Portland.
13 April 2015 07:29 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
An important new paper by Royan et al (2015) has used terrestrial LiDAR to examine progressive failure of a rockslope in Spain.
19 February 2015 08:15 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A video on Youtube shows a road collapse event that destroyed a truck at Paglajhora in Darjeeling. The landslide was a part of a much larger and very active slope failure that seems to have been initiated and exacerbated by poor slope management practices
23 May 2013 08:32 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video has appeared that shows a large progressive rockslide in action. It was taken at the town of Riddes in Switzerland in Friday
14 July 2023 05:54 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Nature (Lavé et al. 2023) describes the 23 cubic km Sabche rockslide in Annapurna, Nepal, which occurred about 850 years ago.
21 June 2023 15:17 in landslide report, Monitoring by Dave Petley
A summary of the 15 June 2023 Brienz/Brinzauls rockslide collapse in the Swiss Alps by Simon Loew and his colleagues.
6 June 2023 06:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 4 June 2023 landslide at Yongsheng Township in Sichuan Province, China, which killed 19 people near to a mine site.
30 June 2022 06:53 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
On 28 June 2022 at about 4:30 p.m. a large rockslide occurred on the side of Hallett Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
10 January 2022 08:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
. The fatal rock topple at Cânyon de Furnas in Brazil Many thanks to the various people who have contacted me over the weekend about the fatal rock topple at Canyon de Furnas in Brazil on Saturday morning (8 January 2022), as shown in the image above. This event, which was caught on a dramatic video, has received considerable attention in part because of the spectacular nature of the event …
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