6 January 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Friele et al. (2020) provides a first detailed analysis of the May 2019 Joffre Peak landslides in Canada
Tags: Canada, featured, North America, paper, permafrost, research, rock avalanches
19 November 2019 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study (Barth et al. 2019) has mapped the landslides triggered by the 27 October 2012 Mw=7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake in British Columbia, Canada
Tags: Canada, coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, North America, paper, research
15 May 2019 06:18 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Monday morning at 07:41 am local time, a significant rock avalanche occurred at Joffre Peak in British Columbia in Canada
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24 March 2017 08:00 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published, Clayton et al. (2017) describe the Mitchell Creek landslide, a very large rockslide in Canada triggered by glacial debuttressing
Tags: Canada, debuttressing, featured, glacier, landslide report, North America, paper, research
12 April 2016 07:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 29th March 2016 the Renfrew County landslide occurred on the banks of the Bonnechere River near to Ottawa. This is a large (10 hectare) landslip.
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, North America
14 December 2015 17:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the summer a permafrost mudslide caused the partial breach, caught on video, of a small lake near Fort McPherson in Canada.
Tags: breach, Canada, featured, landslide report, North America, permafrost
24 September 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Pemberton Portage Road landslide was a channelised debris flow, triggered by heavy rain, that destroyed a house in Birken, BC, Canada on Sunday
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17 October 2013 07:56 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new videos have emerged online of coastal bluff collapses in Canada and the USA over the last week
Tags: bluff, coastal bluff, coastal cliff, featured, landslide video
18 September 2013 11:13 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper, Brooks (2013), has investigated a huge quick clay landslide in Canada. It concludes that it formed about 1100 years ago in response to an earthquake
Tags: Canada, earthquake, featured, flowslide, quick clay, seismic
30 January 2013 08:36 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A somewhat unusual quarry landslide occurred yesterday at the Maskimo Quarry in L’Epiphanie in Quebec, Canada. Montreal CTV News has a good aerial image of the site and the landslide: On initial inspection the slip appears to have originated in the materials in the slope above the main quarry face, and then to have cascaded over the edge into the main excavation. Sadly, there were two trucks and excavator on …
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide report, quarry
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