8 October 2020 06:48 in landslide images by Dave Petley
A satellite image showing post wildfire mudslide potential in the Pacific West of the United States in winter 2020 – 2021
Tags: featured, La Nina, North America, USA, wilddire
11 May 2020 06:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large, unexpected landslide at Waterford in New York state in the United States last week is threatening a number of houses.
2 November 2022 08:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Pelascini et al. 2022) suggests that atmospheric pressure changes may play a role in landslide triggering during typhoons
Tags: East Asia, featured, research, review of a paper, taiwan, triggering
2 September 2022 06:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Heavy rain has triggered multiple landslides in New Zealand over the last two months, causing extensive damage and disruption
Tags: featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rainfall, Wellington
15 January 2021 09:00 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The US National Landslide Preparedness Act was passed this week, requiring that the USGS develops a national strategy for landslide hazards. Meanwhile the search continues for a motorist killed in a debris flow in Oregon
Tags: featured, landslide report, North America, USA
23 October 2020 07:38 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper published in the journal Geohealth (Pollock and Wartman 2020) provides a list of simple actions you can take to survive a landslide
Tags: featured, landslide impacts, paper, reserach, survival
12 May 2020 06:13 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The Váráš rock slope deformation in Troms County in northern Norway, a 70 million cubic metre, 100 m deep creeping landslide.
Tags: DSGD, Europe, featured, INSAR, Norway, rockslide
14 February 2020 07:21 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 13 February 2020 at about 7 am a train carrying ethanol was derailed by a landslide close to Elkhorn City in Pike County in Kentucky, USA
Tags: featured, Kentucky, landslide report, North America, rail, train, USA
12 February 2018 08:04 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A large rockslope failure occurred at Cowee Creek near to Juneau in Alaska in December 2016, inducing a 9 m high, 90 m wide displacement wave that travelled at least 13 km down the valley
Tags: Alaska, featured, North America, rockslope, tsunami, USA, wave
12 December 2016 22:19 in Conference by Dave Petley
The first landslide session at the AGU 16 meeting in San Francisco will be streamed live on Wednesday morning. You can register for free.
Tags: AGU Fall meeting, conference, San Francisco
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