10 December 2020 08:11 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Mindu in Tibet: a new open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences explores the detection of precursors of an imminent landslide using satellite images
Tags: East Asia, featured, monitoring, paper, research, tibet
3 August 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the high, remote mountains of Tibet a debris flow, possibly induced by recent seismic activity, has created a valley-blocking landslide dam
Tags: earthquake, featured, satellite image, Sentinel, South Asia, tibet, valley blocking landslide
5 November 2019 07:11 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The 5 km long ancient, earthquake triggered (?) Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
Tags: earthquake, featured, rock avalanche, tibet
25 February 2019 06:58 in Research project, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The valley-blocking Baige landslide, Tibet in October 2018: an interesting analysis of seismic data to determine rockslide behaviour
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, rockslide, seismic, tibet
21 December 2018 10:59 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The ancient, very large Xuelongnang rockslide and quake lake in Tibet, which was probably triggered by an earthquake 2100 years ago.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, research, tibet, valley blocking landslide
14 December 2018 07:46 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The Nyixoi Chongco rock avalanche; a spectacular, very large ancient landslide in a tectonically active area of the Tibetan Plateau
Tags: East Asia, featured, paper, research, rock avalanche, tibet
12 November 2018 08:08 in landslide images by Dave Petley
On the Tibet / Sichuan border a very large landslide has occurred in Jomda County, blocking the Jinsha River. A very large lake has formed, with a volume of 469 million cubic metres. Overtopping is expected to occur today.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, tibet, valley blocking landslide
5 November 2018 07:24 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Following initial analysis by @rajfortyseven, Planet Labs images show that another major glacial landslide blocked the Yarlung Tsangpo river last week
Tags: East Asia, featured, glacial, glacier, Planet Labs, tibet
30 October 2018 14:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A kind reader has successfully found the valley-blocking 11th October 2018 Jomda County rockslide in Tibet, allowing us to view it using Planet Labs images
Tags: East Asia, featured, Planet Labs, rockslide, satellite, tibet
23 October 2018 06:26 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large valley blocking landslide occurred at Bolo Township in Jomda County, Tibet on 11th October, causing 20,000 people to be evacuated.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, tibet
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