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21 April 2020
The most expensive landslide samples of all time? Moon rock
NASA is re-analysing samples of moon rock collected during the Apollo 17 mission. These samples are believed to be from a landslide.
20 April 2020
Salkantay – what happened after the initial failure?
The Planet Labs images from the Salkantay landslide in Peru suggest that the rock avalanche behaved in ways that are quite surprising.
17 April 2020
The Salkantay landslide: wonderful Planet Labs high resolution satellite images
Extraordinary high resolution satellite images of the source and deposit of the Salkantay rock avalanche in Peru, collected by Planet Labs.
16 April 2020
The collapse of the Dehdasht-Pataveh tunnel portal in Iran
Two interesting new landslide videos – a slump in residual soil and the collapse of the Dehdasht – Pataveh tunnel portal in Iran
15 April 2020
Kegesuglo: a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea on Friday 10 April 2020
On Friday 10 April 2020 a large channelised landslide killed 10 people at Kegesuglo in Kundiawa-Gembog district in Papua New Guinea.
8 April 2020
Denali Park Road: fascinating landslides in a subarctic mountain environment
More than 150 landslides have been identified along Denali Park Road in Denali National Park in Alaska, some of which are causing damage to the highway
7 April 2020
Landslides in Art Part 32: The Jungle Book
In the 2016 Walt Disney film The Jungle Book, the main character (Mowgli) gets caught in a large landslide triggered by heavy rainfall.
6 April 2020
The perils of rapid off-site resettlement of people affected by disasters
A recent open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards (Zhang et al 2019) uses Beichuan to examine the perils and pitfalls of rapid off-site resettlement of people affected by disasters
5 April 2020
The 1935 colliery landslide in Cwmaman, South Wales
In 1935 a large colliery landslide came very close to causing major damage to Cwmaman in South Wales. An archive Pathe News report provides detail.
4 April 2020
Debris flows after wildfires – an example from the Milli Fire in Oregon
In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Wall et al. (2020) describe a large debris flow triggered by heavy rainfall after the Milli Fire in Oregon.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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