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13 December 2017
Submarine landslides during the growth of volcanic islands
In a new paper, Hunt and Jarvis (2017) demonstrate that multiple large submarine landslides have occurred close to the Canary Islands in the last 7 million years.
23 November 2017
Landslides from the Iran-Iraq earthquake
Information is slowly appearing about landslides triggered by the M=7.3 12th November Iran-Iraq earthquake. The biggest slides appear to be lateral spreads
17 November 2017
Detecting landslide precursors from space
Review of a paper:- detecting landslide precursors from space: the use of Sentinel images to interpret the Maoxian landslide in June 2017
13 November 2017
The M=7.3 Halabjah earthquake in Iraq and Iran: potential landslides
The M=7.3 Halabjah earthquake that occurred late yesterday in Iraq has the potential to have triggered large numbers of landslides
10 November 2017
The Mocoa debris flow disaster: satellite imagery reveals the cause
An archive of before and after RapidEye satellite images is now available, which clearly show the cause of the Mocao debris flow disaster in April 2017
9 November 2017
Corinto in Colombia: first satellite images of the mudflow that has killed 4 and left 18 people missing
Corinto in Colombia: first satellite images from Planet Labs of the mudflow that has killed 4 and left 18 people missing on Tuesday
8 November 2017
Evidence of catastrophic landsliding from medieval earthquakes in Nepal
A new paper (Stolle et al. 2017) in Quaternary Science Reviews suggests that 3 medieval earthquakes may have induced catastrophic landsliding in Nepal
6 November 2017
The Nuugaatsiaq landslide in Greenland: understanding the failure processes
The Nuugaatsiaq landslide in Greenland: understanding failure processes from the precursory seismic signals (review of a paper)
5 November 2017
George Town: another serious landslide in Penang
Overnight, heavy rainfall has triggered a major rotational landslide at a newly-constructed engineered slope in George Town, Penang in Malaysia
3 November 2017
Managing the hazards in Franz Josef, New Zealand
A new report analyses options for managing the hazards in Franz Josef in New Zealand. It concludes that: “Do nothing is not an option”
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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