Boulder vs house
22 March 2012 07:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A 7 m diameter boulder thit a large house in Athens Ohio on Tuesday evening, causing considerable damage.
22 March 2012 07:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A 7 m diameter boulder thit a large house in Athens Ohio on Tuesday evening, causing considerable damage.
5 March 2012 17:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Startling images of a fatal rockfall from a 200 tonne boulder in France last week
2 August 2011 19:31 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Part two of the series of posts on landslides from the Christchurch earthquake sequence. This post shows rockfalls from the Port Hills area.
1 August 2011 18:57 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The first set of images of landslides triggered by the recent Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand. This set show a house that has been struck by a large boulder.
26 February 2011 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A review of the latest information about rockfalls triggered by the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand
22 June 2010 07:12 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Yesterday NDMA started the process of blasting the boulders in the channel at Attabad. This image, from Focus, shows the state of the channel and the reconstructed access track: One of the blasts yesterday was on the boulder at the entrance to the channel, visible on the left of the image above. This image shows the crews drilling the blast holes: Clearly this boulder is not the main issue in …
17 November 2009 08:13 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thanks to Dr Kurt Douglas at the University of New South Wales for drawing my attention to this. The Australian Courier Mail has a story today about a family that survived a near miss from a 1500 tonne boulder that rolled from the hill above their house in southern Queensland on Friday. The rock detached from the slope above their house and rolled to within 50 m of their property …
28 April 2023 05:49 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
Sand in Taufers: an unusual and interesting rockslide in Italy that was caught on surveillance camera. Fortunately it caused minimal damage.
19 April 2023 05:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 18 April 2023 a large rockslide occurred at Torkham in Pakistan, very close to the border with Afghanistan. At least three people were killed.
3 March 2023 08:16 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
High resolution SkySat satellite images have been captured by Planet of the 23 February 2023 Alxa League coal mine landslide in China.
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