13 August 2016 08:30 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Freshwater, Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Radio has a nice video, taken by a walker on the beach at Freshwater, of a cliff collapse event. The video was uploaded onto Facebook by Phil Baldwin, who was collecting fossils on the cliff face. ITV News has a nice report that provides more detail about what happened. Phil Baldwin has also uploaded some images of the aftermath of the landslide onto …
Tags: coast, england, erosion, Europe, featured, landslide video, UK
19 December 2014 08:10 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In my latest paper, just published in the journal Landslides, my co-authors and I examine monitoring data for the Ventnor landslide in southern England
Tags: england, featured, hournal, landslides, paper, review, UK
5 March 2013 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Images have appeared of a spectacular landslide at Totland on the Isle of Wight, which has developed over the course of the winter probably in response to the recent heavy rainfall
Tags: coastal landslide, featured, landslide report, UK
6 March 2023 07:57 in Coast by Dave Petley
The BBC has an article about a man in Luccombe on the Isle of Wight, whose house is threatened by a rapidly developing coastal landslide.
Tags: coast, england, Europe, featured, hazard, isle of wight, risk, United Kingdom
18 May 2021 15:26 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Scientific Reports (Aslan et al. 2021) describes the actively moving Kara-Bogaz-Gol megaslide in Kazakhstan. At 10 cubic kilometres this is the largest active landslide described to date.
Tags: featured, Kazakhstan, megaslide, research, review of a paper, West Asia
31 March 2017 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has been posted on Youtube that shows a dramatic landslide that occurred at Point Dume on the Californian coast on 25th March 2017
Tags: california, coastal cliff, featured, landslide video, USA
7 April 2014 03:25 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A large landslide in Jalisco, Mexico Liveleak has this new video of a large landslide that apparently occurred in Jalisco in Mexico over the weekend. I know no more details, but the impatient driver of the red car was lucky that the landslide did not occur 20 seconds later: .. A small landslide at Hannover Point Meanwhile there is a much better quality video of a somewhat less dramatic landslide …
Tags: landslide video, Mexico, UK
11 February 2014 08:47 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The current exceptional rainfall in southern England will be driving up groundwater levels. Deep-seated landslides typically activate 2-3 months later
14 February 2013 08:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The geology map of the Hatfield Stainforth landslide site shows the site is underlain by alluvium. This suggests a bearing capacity failure
Tags: bearing capacity, coal mine, colliery, featured, landslide report, rotational failure, UK
4 January 2013 10:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A round-up of interesting landslide stories in the last week, including the UK, New Zealand, Brazil and Malaysia
Tags: brazil, featured, malaysia, New Zealand, UK
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