by Dave Petley
13 January 2021 08:28 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 7 August 2020 a landslide in Gokseong County, S. Korea killed 5 people. A new paper (Choi et al 2021) suggests that this was triggered by the failure of an under construction embankment during heavy rainfall
by Dave Petley
5 August 2020 08:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last few days South Korea has been hit by very heavy rainfall, triggering landslides that have had a substantial impact
by Dave Petley
14 March 2019 07:23 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
A new paper in Engineering Geology documents loss inducing landslides in South Korea from 1970 to 2018, revealing that 1728 people have lost their lives.
by Dave Petley
13 July 2015 07:24 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In July 2011 33 debris flows occurred in Umyeonsan in South Korea, killing 16 people. In a new paper, Jeong et al. have analysed these landslides in detail, finding that they were initiated as small surperficial landslides that became highly mobile in the river channels, eroding and incorporating large amounts of sediment to create the catastrophic flows.
by Dave Petley
29 July 2011 20:06 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A dramatic new video of the landslides in Korea this week.
by Dave Petley
27 July 2011 12:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A brief review ofthe landslides in South Korea today.
by Dave Petley
28 July 2011 01:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Update: don’t miss the video of the Seoul landslides here Yonhap News has published a photograph of what I think is the site of the landslide in Chuncheon: Meanwhile, the current rain radar image for Korea suggests that heavy rainfall is continuing to fall over the affected areas: Fatality-inducing landslides do occur fairly often in South Korea. The graph below shows the data from the Durham fatal landslide database for …
by Dave Petley
10 December 2012 06:37 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A remarkable video of a full-scale debris flow experiment in South Korea.
by Dave Petley
28 July 2011 08:51 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
An unbelievable video of the landslides in Seoul, South Korea, yesterday
by Dave Petley
28 August 2020 08:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 26 August 2020 debris flows induced by intense rainfall hit Charikar in Afghanistan, killing at least 100 people.
Dave Petley is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.