15 February 2022 07:34 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The passage of Cyclone Dovi from 6 to 8 February triggered multiple landslides at East Cape in Gisborne District, New Zealand
Tags: drone, featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rainfall
19 January 2021 08:22 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A sensational Planet Labs SkySat high resolution satellite image of the Mount Silberhorn rock avalanche in New Zealand
Tags: featured, New Zealand, Planet Labs, rock avalanche, SkySat
2 January 2021 11:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Mount Silberhorn – a large rockslide has occurred in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, close to Aoraki/Mount Cook, in the last few days
Tags: featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rock avalanche, rockslide
26 October 2020 08:37 in Photo gallery by Dave Petley
Recent examples, from India and Vietnam, of the ways in which landslides can affect roads, causing extensive disruption
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10 June 2020 07:20 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new study published in Science Advances (Wang et al. 2020) shows that rainstorms tend to trigger landslides that sculpt the landscape at lower levels, whilst earthquake induced landslides cause erosion at higher elevations.
Tags: earthquake, featured, geomorphology, mountain, New Zealand, rainfall, research
30 July 2019 22:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 1987 Mount Zandila landslide in northern Italy is probably the most important rock avalanche in Europe in the last 40 years. The 34 million cubic metre slide killed 29 people
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, landslide dam, rock avanalnche
3 April 2019 06:46 in Research project by Dave Petley
High resolution monitoring of a natural rock slope in the southern Japanese Alps has provided insight into the complexity of the timing of rockfalls
Tags: East Asia, featured, japan, montiring, research, rockfalls
12 September 2017 22:12 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper (Coe et al. 2017) strongly suggests that the cluster of 24 rock avalanches since 1984 in S. Alaska may be associated with rock permafrost degradation
Tags: Alaska, featured, North America, permafrost, review of a paper, rock avalanche, USA
31 May 2017 05:58 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 29th May 2017 another dramatic debris flow occurred in the Illgraben catchment in Switzerland. This event was captured on video.
Tags: debris flow, Europe, featured, landslide video, Switzerland
16 May 2017 06:39 in landslide report, Research project by Dave Petley
The Pas de l’Ours landslide: a very large and potentially-problematic actively-moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of France
Tags: Europe, featured, France, INSAR, landslide report, monitoring, rockslide
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