Fifteen years of the Landslide Blog
16 December 2022 05:00 in blogging by Dave Petley
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.
16 December 2022 05:00 in blogging by Dave Petley
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.
22 February 2022 07:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study has found increased landslide activity in the months after the low-magnitude 2018 Molise earthquake in Italy
2 November 2021 08:07 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
According to a new paper in the journal Landslides (Cheng, Yang and Du 2021), the 220,000 cubic metre 2017 Tonghua landslide in Sichuan Province, China was triggered by nearby blasting during tunnel construction.
3 September 2021 10:29 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Landslides triggered by the 14 August 2021 earthquake in Haiti
2 February 2021 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An air blast strikes trekkers at Kapuche Lake in Nepal following an avalanche, as caught in a video uploaded to Youtube.
6 April 2020 07:00 in Research project by Dave Petley
A recent open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards (Zhang et al 2019) uses Beichuan to examine the perils and pitfalls of rapid off-site resettlement of people affected by disasters
17 September 2019 07:30 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new analysis of the air blast generated by the 2008 Wenjia rock avalanche suggests that it generated the windspeeds of a Force 12 hurricane, and that the impacts extended far beyond the margins of the landslide
22 August 2019 02:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Various news agencies in China are reporting multiple landslides triggered by extreme rainfall in the Wenchuan area, and adjacent regions, of China. Reports suggest 44 people have been killed or are missing.
28 June 2019 06:31 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a simply wonderful paper just published in Reviews of Geophysics, which is open access, Fan et al. (2019) review the literature on chains of geologic hazards arising from large earthquakes, with a focus on the Ch-Chi and Wenchuan events.
18 February 2019 07:23 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The runout of the one cubic kilometre Daguangbao landslide was controlled by complex processes in a basal layer that may have been just 0.1 mm thick
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