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27 April 2015
Nepal earthquake impact – the key questions
The Nepal earthquake impact remains frustratingly unclear because of the difficulties accessing remote areas in the epicentral area
10 April 2015
Sumner road drone footage and two other new landslide videos
There are three interesting new videos on Youtube, one showing rockfall damage on a orad above Sumner in New Zealand, one showing a landslide induced house collapse in India and the other showing a landslide event (and its aftermath) in Greece
24 March 2015
Bizarre landslide story of the year: an image of Jesus appears in a landslide scar
The Irish Mirror is reporting that a likeness of Jesus has appeared in a landslide scar in Colombia.
10 March 2015
Review of a paper – the 27th February 2014 San Leo landslide in northern Italy
In a newly published paper, Lisa Borgatti and colleagues describe the February 2014 landslide that affected the historical town of San Leo in northern Italy, providing both a description of the event and a historical context. Landslides will be a major threat to this historical site in the coming decades
4 February 2015
Harbury Tunnel landslide: an update from Network Rail
Yesterday Network Rail released more information, and some good images, of the Harbury Tunnel landslide in Central England. The images suggest a complex failure mechanism involving 350,000 tonnes of material
17 December 2014
Landslides from the 2010 Mw=7.2 earthquake in the Sierra Cucapah, Mexico
In our latest paper, just published, we have mapped and analysed landslides triggered by the 2010 earthquake in the Sierra Cucapah range in Mexico
17 November 2014
Markagunt: A truly gigantic gravity landslide (2000 cubic kilometres!)
A new paper in Geology describes for the first time the Markagunt gravity slide – a c.2000 square kilometre landslide deposit in Utah, USA that occurred about 22 million years ago.
4 November 2014
Mount Mannen rockslide – still in an accelerated creep phase of movement
The Mount Mannen rockslide in Norway continues to creep rapidly. New monitoring data suggests that the slide is moving at about 15 mm per day now
29 October 2014
Mount Mannen in Norway: an imminent large rockslide
In Mount Mannen in western Norway, an apparently imminent large rockslide is attracting great media interest, including a live webcam
23 October 2014
Riverbank collapse: a fascinating new video
A nice new video has appeared on Youtube showing a progressive riverbank collapse event, although the location is not certain
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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