Central Java: disastrous landslides in Indonesia over the weekend
20 June 2016 07:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Over the weekend heavy rainfall induced several disastrous landslides, killing at least 46 people and leaving more missing.
20 June 2016 07:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Over the weekend heavy rainfall induced several disastrous landslides, killing at least 46 people and leaving more missing.
16 April 2015 07:40 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a recent open access paper, Lavigne et al (2005) have investigated a catastrophic landslide at the Leuwigajah dumpsite Indonesia, which killed 143 people
18 December 2014 08:18 in landslide video by Dave Petley
There is a video on Youtube that apparently shows the moment that the Banjarnegara district landslide in Indonesia occurred, killing over 100 people
15 December 2014 06:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Late of Friday night a landslide in Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia killed 32 people, with an estimated 76 people still missing.
2 December 2013 07:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Reports suggest that nine people were killed in a landslide triggered by rainfall at Brastagi in North Sumatra, Indonesia on Saturday
9 November 2012 08:38 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Reports suggest that at least 18 people were killed by landslides in the Guatemala earthquake, and that 11 have been killed by a landslide dam collapse in Indonesia today
18 February 2012 08:59 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video of a large landslide in an open cast coal mine in Indonesia in January 2012
1 December 2011 14:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Reports are emerging of a landslide in Nias, Indonesia. Seven people have been killed, about another 30 people may be missing.
27 October 2010 08:46 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Indonesia is today trying to deal simultaneously with two substantial natural hazards of a rather different nature. The earthquake on Monday 25th October triggered a localised tsunami in the Mentawai islands, close to the epicentre, the Reuters Alertnet reports killed 108 people and has left a further 502 people missing. The data on the earthquake available on the USGS website suggest that this was a Mw=7.7 event at a depth of …
24 February 2010 11:41 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A large landslide occurred yesterday in the Dewata tea plantation area in Pasir Jambu, Southern Bandung in West Java, Indonesia, burying the accommodation for temporary plantation workers. It is estimated that 70 people were buried by the slide. This image, from AP, appears to show the head of the landslide, which looks to be a large but comparatively shallow flow type failure in regolith: The toe of the slide, including …
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