12 February 2011 06:33 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Public lectures Just a brief heads-up to anyone in Adelaide, Australia this week. I will be giving two public lectures as follows: Coastal cliff erosion – Monday, 14 February, 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm, at the University of Adelaide, Chapman Lecture Theatre (North Terrace Campus). Hosted by the University of Adelaide. Impact of landslides triggered by earthquakes – Wednesday, 16 February, 6.00pm-8.00pm, at Level 11, 108 King William Street. Hosted …
Tags: australia, landslide report, Turkey
10 January 2010 06:03 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As I am currently in Sydney en route to New Zealand it seemed appropriate to post an Australian story. Australia rarely appears on the fatal landslide database, but it currently has a profound slope failure issue of its own, which is sufficiently serious to merit a campaign by a newspaper. The issue is related to the Murray River in the southeast of the country: The problem is that the Murray …
Tags: australia, drought, murray-darling, riverbank erosion
9 February 2009 08:23 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
(Updated 10th Feb to include latest casualty numbers) The extraordinary wildfires in Australia are dominating the headlines in the UK, half a world away. Wildfires are quite common events, but the number of fatalities that this particular episode has caused is really quite unusual. Below in Figure 1 I have plotted the recorded worldwide recorded number of deaths from wildfires for the period since 1980, using data from the CRED …
Tags: australia, erosion, wildfire
14 July 2022 08:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Wednesday 13 July 2022 a major landslide occurred at San Antonio de Prado in Medellin, Colombia, killing at least two people
Tags: Colombia, featured, landslide report, landslide video, S. America, South America
18 March 2021 07:26 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
Retrogressive breach failures, are coastal flow slides that occur naturally in fine sands near dynamic tidal channels or rivers
Tags: featured, paper, research, video
23 October 2020 07:38 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper published in the journal Geohealth (Pollock and Wartman 2020) provides a list of simple actions you can take to survive a landslide
Tags: featured, landslide impacts, paper, reserach, survival
2 December 2019 08:07 in Mining by Dave Petley
Data suggests that the cost of mining-related landslides is increasing rapidly, with almost 3000 deaths in the period between 2014 and 2018.
Tags: database, fatal landslides, featured, mine, mining
7 August 2019 06:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Deviot, Tasmania a reactivated slow-moving landslide is destroying five properties. The owners are seeking redress through the Tasmanian Upper House.
Tags: australia, featured, insurance, slow landslide, Tasmania
27 January 2019 16:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The enormous scale of the tailings dam collapse at Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Brazil is now clear. The dam was 87 m high, holding c13 million cubic metres.
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, Sout America, tailings
27 December 2018 10:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The town of Tlalpujahua in Mexico, now renowned for the manufacture of Christmas ornaments, was devastated by a catastrophic tailings landslide in 1937
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