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18 April 2014
Pathe news – historic landslide films
In the last week Pathe News has uploaded 88,000 archive news films from 1910 to 1970. Some of these films feature the aftermath of landslides.
17 March 2014
Mount Haast: A GNS report on the 2013 rock avalanche (which is also known as the Mount Dixon rock avalanche)
GNS Science in New Zealand have made available online a report into the January 2013 rock avalanche on Mount Haast / Mount Dixon
13 March 2014
The Mount La Perouse landslide: new images
Marten Geertsema has kindly made a set of images of the Mount La Perouse landslide available. These were collected during a field visit last week.
21 February 2014
Emergency assessment of wildfire debris flow potential
The USGS has a new web-based tool for disseminating information about debris flow potential for areas affected by wildfires
19 February 2014
Jupille 1961: an extraordinary fly ash landslide
The 1961 fly ash landslide at Jupille in Belgium killed 11 people. A new paper resurrects the idea that air fluidization may have been the key mechanism
17 February 2014
New paper: the role of fatigue in rockfalls
A review of our new paper (Brain et al 2014) that examines the role of fatigue in rockfall generation
14 February 2014
Xinjiang earthquake: a good new image of the landslides
Another image has emerged of landslides triggered by the Xinjiang earthquake yesterday
13 February 2014
Xinjiang: Landslides from the M=6.9 earthquake in NW China yesterday
On 12 February 2014 a Mw=6.9 earthquake struck Xinjiang in China. Images are emerging of some of the landslides that it triggered.
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11 February 2014
Southern England: the potential for movement in deep-seated landslides
The current exceptional rainfall in southern England will be driving up groundwater levels. Deep-seated landslides typically activate 2-3 months later
10 February 2014
Three interesting new videos – a slow avalanche, a coastal rockslide and a quarry slide
Three new videos have been brought to my attention – one showing a slow avalanches in Italy and two rockslides, one on the coast and one in a quarry
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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