Portland: progressive failure at Weare Cliffs
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.
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.
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 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
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
20 January 2020 07:15 in Tailings by Dave Petley
Last month the official Expert Panel released its report on the Feijao tailings dam disaster at Brumadinho in Brazil, which killed over 300 people.
22 November 2018 08:23 in landslide images by Dave Petley
NPA Satellite Mapping have completed a pre-failure analysis of the Fagraskogarfjall landslide in Iceland using InSAR data. Up to 2 metres of movement occurred in the year before the main collapse.
12 March 2018 08:20 in Tailings by Dave Petley
On Friday a significant tailings dam failure occurred at the Cadia gold mine in Australia, causing production to be stopped. Fortunately, to date no release of tailings beyond the boundaries of the mine has occurred.
6 November 2017 08:04 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The Nuugaatsiaq landslide in Greenland: understanding failure processes from the precursory seismic signals (review of a paper)
2 February 2014 18:53 in landslide video by Dave Petley
In Jalan Kenanga in Malaysia in 2009, a large retaining wall collapsed at a construction site. A video captured the failure as it developed.
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