7 May 2020 06:48 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have captured wonderful high resolution SkySat imagery of the 17 April 2020 channelised debris flows at Chesegon, Kenya.
Tags: Africa, debris flow, featured, Kenya, Planet Labs, satellite
16 August 2012 00:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
Tags: database, featured, global, landslide report, paper, research
25 October 2009 19:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Friday the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) released an atlas of potential natural disasters affecting the countries of that region, which has come out of the PREDECAN project. It presents maps of the distributions of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, flooding, frost and drought, with a special emphasis on El Nino / La Nina. As far as I can tell this atlas is available only …
Tags: atlas, El Nino, landslide map, South America
25 May 2008 14:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In view of the ongoing deep concern about the stability of the >30 landslide dams in Sichuan (now known in the press as “quake lakes”), and in particular the one upstream at Beichuan, I thought it might be helpful to provide a brief review of what we know about landslide dams. First, there us a great deal of literature on this topic. For example, Schuster and Costa (1991) detailed 463 …
Tags: china, earthquake, landslide dam, sichuan
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