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7 June 2023
Landslides from the 5 September 2022 Luding Earthquake in China
Landslides from the 5 September 2022 Mw=6.7 Luding Earthquake in Sichuan, China triggered many landslides around the town of Moxi.
26 April 2023
Planet Labs image of the coseismic landslide near Islahiye in Turkey
Planet has captured a high resolution Skysat image of the valley-blocking coseismic landslide near Islahiye, Turkey.
21 April 2023
Post-seismic evolution of landslides in the Wenchuan earthquake area
A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.
7 March 2023
The remarkable landslide in an olive grove near to Hatay, triggered by the Turkey earthquakes
The remarkable landslide in an olive grove near to Hatay, triggered by the Turkey earthquake, has been captured in satellite imagery by Planet.
13 February 2023
Emerging information about landslides from the 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
Information about, and images of, landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes is starting to emerge on social media
7 February 2023
First images of landslides from the 6 February 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes
First images of landslides from the 6 February 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes
6 February 2023
Potential landslides from the 6 February 2023 Mw=7.8 earthquake near Nurdağı in Gaziantep, Turkey
The 6 February 2023 Mw=7.8 earthquake near Nurdağı in Gaziantep, Turkey is likely to have triggered substantial numbers of landslides
29 November 2022
Cianjur: a deadly landslide from the 21 November 2022 West Java earthquake
Several landslides were triggered by the 21 November 2022 West Java earthquake in Indonesia. Reports indicate multiple fatalities.
20 October 2022
Landslides from the 14 August 2021 M=7.2 earthquake in Haiti
The 14 August 2021 M=7.2 earthquake in Haiti triggered many landslides. A recent paper (Havenith et al. 2022) suggests that this might in part have been because the slopes were preconditioned (weakened) by earlier earthquakes and storms.
7 September 2022
Landslides from the 5 September 2022 earthquake in Luding County, Sichuan
The 5 September 2022 M=6.8 earthquake in Luding County, Sichuan has triggered large numbers of landslides, causing extensive damage.
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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