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28 May 2018
Another landslide at the Ituango dam site in Colombia
On Saturday another landslide happened at the Ituango dam site. This was a smaller failure above a slope that has been cut and mitigated. 1500 workers were evacuated from the site, but no-one was injured. The integrity of the dam was not apparently threatened by this event.
30 April 2018
A surprising but important discovery on the timing of cracking-sliding failures landslides in China
A new paper (Li et al. 2018) in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences makes a surprising but important discovery on the timing of “cracking-sliding failure” loess landslides in China
27 April 2018
Shaking table tests of the Newmark displacement method for earthquake induced landslides
In a new paper just published in Landslides, Li et al. (2018) use a shaking table model to show that the Newmark displacement method overestimates the critical acceleration value for earthquake induced landslides
20 February 2018
First satellite images of the Puerto Venus debris flows
Parts of the track Puerto Venus debris flows in Colombia last week have been captured on satellite imagery by Planet Labs
14 January 2018
Villa Santa Lucia landslide in Chile – high resolution satellite images from Planet Labs
Planet Labs have now succeeded in collecting high resolution imagery of the 16th December Villa Santa Lucia landslide in Chile.
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
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
30 August 2017
Before and after satellite images of the Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche
Planet Labs satellite imagery is now available showing the aftermath of the Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche in Switzerland, which killed eight people
1 August 2017
Santa Marta: a landslide induced tsunami on 19th July 2017
A 50 cm high tsunami struck the Caribbean coast of Colombia at Santa Marta on 19th July 2017. The most likely cause was a submarine landslide.
14 February 2017
The enormous scale of the erosion problem at the Oroville Dam site
Images that have appeared online over the last 24 hours dramatically illustrate the vast scale of the erosion problem at the Oroville dam site
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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