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26 March 2018
NASA models landslide climatology
NASA has released a series of animations that visualise global landslide climatology using their Landslide Hazard Assessment model for Situational Awareness (LHASA) model
22 March 2018
Wairoa: a significant valley-blocking landslide in New Zealand
A significant valley-blocking landslide has occurred near to Wairoa in New Zealand. The Mangapoike River is blocked and a lake estimated to be 50 m deep has formed
21 March 2018
Planet Labs image of the Mae Moh mine landslide
Planet Labs have now captured an image of the very large Mae Moh mine landslide in Thailand, which happened last Saturday
20 March 2018
Mae Moh mine in Lampang province: a large, ongoing waste dump landslide
A large, ongoing waste dump landslide has developed at Mae Moh mine in Thailand, extending over at least 1 km and causing damage to mine infrastructure
16 March 2018
Forthcoming workshop:- Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides
The second JTC-1 workshop will be held from 3rd to 5th December 2018 in Hong Kong. The topic will be: Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides
15 March 2018
Llusco, Peru: a dramatic landslide has destroyed 100 houses
Over the last week a large, complex rotational landslide has destroyed over 100 houses at Llusco in the Cusco region of Peru
14 March 2018
Papua New Guinea earthquake – continued landslide impacts
New satellite images from Planet Labs corroborate the newspaper reports of significant landslide disasters occurring in the aftermath of the Papua New Guinea Earthquake
12 March 2018
Cadia Gold Mine – another tailings dam failure
On Friday a significant tailings dam failure occurred at the Cadia gold mine in Australia, causing production to be stopped. Fortunately, to date no release of tailings beyond the boundaries of the mine has occurred.
5 March 2018
Landslide weirdness – a landslide as a “crashed UFO”
A video has gone viral on Youtube, apparently showing a crashed UFO on South Georgia,. In reality it shows the runout path of an elongate boulder that was a part of landslide from a permafrost affected mountain
2 March 2018
More detail on the Papua New Guinea landslide dams
The European Space Agency satellite Sentinel 2 has collected good images of at least some of the Papua New Guinea landslide dams
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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