8 October 2018 06:49 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Palu landslides, triggered by the Sulawesi earthquake, may have been the worst mass movement event in terms of loss of life for five years
Tags: earthquake, featured, indonesia, Palu, SE. Asia
3 September 2018 23:12 in Oddities by Dave Petley
Dynamic liquefaction, a key process that generates landslides in earthquakes, especially for example in the loess of China, also sinks large ships
Tags: dynamic liquefaction, earthquake, featured, granular materials, ship, shipping
8 August 2017 22:02 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Early indications suggest that M=7.0 Jiuzhaigou County earthquake in Sichuan Province yesterday should have generated significant landslide activity
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, sichuan
12 December 2015 11:03 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two dramatic landslides appeared on Youtube this week, a huge rockfall from Manali in India and a landslide destroying houses in Congjiang, China
Tags: Asia, china, East Asia, featured, India, landslide video, rockfall, South Asia
3 May 2014 05:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Images are emerging of the Badakhshan landslide in Afghanistan yesterday,which has killed over 350 people. It seems likely that this is a landslide in loess
Tags: Afghanistan, featured, landslide report, loess
24 July 2013 16:58 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new videos on Youtube show landslides in China. One features the aftermath of a loess landslide, the other a rockslide above a community
Tags: china, featured, landslide video, loess, rockslide
22 July 2013 08:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Cook Strait earthquake sequence of the last three days has generated a small number of landslides and liquefaction failures
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, Gansu, liquefaction, New Zealand
29 September 2012 01:41 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
A couple of interesting landslide stories this week (updated with an extra video below): 1. The Route 14 landslide near Cedar Falls, Utah Thanks to Alexandre Mathieu for the heads up on this one. Back in October 2011, a huge landslide blocked State Route 14 near to Cedar Falls. Since then a huge project has been underway to reinstate the road. This was completed this week, when the road reopened. …
Tags: china, mitigation, USA, video, website
5 February 2011 13:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I have finally managed to process the 2010 data in my database on lives lost from landslides around the world. This post presents a summary of the findings.
Tags: database, fatalities, featured, global losses
16 September 2010 07:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
NASA have somehow managed to find a gap in the clouds to collect a satellite image of the Zhouqu landslide site. Readers at the time of the landslide last month will remember that I was wondering about the source of the slides. Although this image does not give a full answer, it gets us a part of the way there: A zoom into the affected area yields this: The slides …
Tags: china, Gansu, satellite, satellite imagery
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