13 February 2023 06:33 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Information about, and images of, landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes is starting to emerge on social media
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, Syria, Turkey
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.
Tags: anniversary, blog, blogging, featured
29 November 2022 07:36 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Several landslides were triggered by the 21 November 2022 West Java earthquake in Indonesia. Reports indicate multiple fatalities.
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, SE. Asia
20 October 2022 06:45 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 14 August 2021 M=7.2 earthquake in Haiti triggered many landslides. A recent paper (Havenith et al. 2022) suggests that this might in part have been because the slopes were preconditioned (weakened) by earlier earthquakes and storms.
Tags: Caribbean, coseismic landslide, earthquake-induced landslide, featured, Haiti, paper, research, seismic landslide
30 September 2022 07:00 in Database by Dave Petley
I have been pondering the number of large landslide disasters that occurred in the 1960s. This is an initial list that includes the landslide impacts of two of the greatest earthquakes in history and a series of landslides caused by dams and mining.
Tags: disaster, earthquake, featured, global database, landslide disasters, mining
7 September 2022 09:00 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 5 September 2022 M=6.8 earthquake in Luding County, Sichuan has triggered large numbers of landslides, causing extensive damage.
Tags: china, earthquake, East Asia, featured, landslide report, Sichuan Province
18 January 2022 08:11 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Arhavi, Turkey: a new paper in the Journal Natural Hazards (Tanyaş et al. 2022) shows that landslide impacts of new roads can be comparable to that of a medium sized earthquake
Tags: Asia, featured, research, review of a paper, road, road construction, Turkey
18 November 2021 09:21 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
An Indian government official claimed yesterday that the Char Dham highway project in India is not responsible for causing landslides. This is demonstrably incorrect.
Tags: featured, highway, India, landslide report, South Asia, Uttarakhand
15 November 2021 07:46 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Landslides from the 14 November 2021 M=6.3 earthquake near to Fin in Iran
Tags: dust, earthquake, featured, Iran, landslide video, Middle East
10 September 2021 07:42 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Images of landslides from the 7 September 2021 M=7.1 Guerrero earthquake in Mexico
Tags: featured, landslide images, landslide report, Mexico, North America
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