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20 April 2018
Further information about the Castell de Mur landslide in Spain
More information is now available about the Castell de Mur landslide in Spain on 16th April, including drone images, before and after photographs and the seismic traces
18 April 2018
Castell de Mur: a major, fatal rockslide in Spain on Monday
On Monday a 20,000 cubic metre rockslide at Castell de Mur in Catalonia, Spain killed two people. The rockslide occurred at the site of a village destroyed by landslides 70 years ago
17 April 2018
Landslides in Nepal: the need for a national agency?
A group of national and international experts are calling for the creation of a new national agency to manage landslides in Nepal.
12 April 2018
Candelaria mine: a large rockslide in October 2017
In October 2017 a large rockslide occurred at the Candelaria mine in Chile, reducing production by about 20%. Planet Labs imagery captures the aftermath of this large wedge failure
10 April 2018
Karimabad, Pakistan: a dramatic rock and ice avalanche caught on video
On Monday a very large rock and ice avalanche occurred at Karimabad, in Hunza, northern Pakistan. This event, which claimed three lives, was caught on a dramatic video
9 April 2018
Santa Cruz island: rockfalls during the M=5.3 earthquake in California on Thursday
Photographs taken from boats showed coastal cliff rockfalls on Santa Cruz island in California during the M=5.4 earthquake on Thursday 5th April
8 April 2018
Fatal landslides in 2017
A first analysis of fatal landslides, and the resultant deaths, in 2017. In terms of the number of events, 2017 was the third worst year since I started collecting data in late 2002. In total, 453 different landslides killed 4,164 people.
4 April 2018
Two of the more interesting landslides from the Papua New Guinea earthquake
Better satellite images are now becoming available showing the large landslides triggered by the Papua New Guinea earthquake
3 April 2018
Landslides triggered by the 14 November 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake, New Zealand
In a new paper, Massey et al (2018) describe initial maps of the landslides triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake in New Zealand
27 March 2018
You can help compile the NASA landslide catalogue
NASA has now introduced a tool called Landslide Reporter that allows users to upload data to the NASA landslide catalogue
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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