The 12th International Symposium on Landslides, Naples, June 2016
28 May 2015 07:00 in Conference by Dave Petley
The 12th International Symposium on Landslides will be held in Naples, Italy in June 2016
28 May 2015 07:00 in Conference by Dave Petley
The 12th International Symposium on Landslides will be held in Naples, Italy in June 2016
4 January 2013 10:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A round-up of interesting landslide stories in the last week, including the UK, New Zealand, Brazil and Malaysia
20 January 2011 21:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The lack of posts on this blog will not have passed unnoticed I am sure, and I can only apologise. Unfortunately, my day job is insanely busy at the moment, and I have no time for research, let alone blog posts. This will ease within a fortnight, if not before, so please be assured that the blog is not on the way to oblivion. During my unfortunate lull in posts …
8 April 2010 13:36 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
AP is reporting that over 200 people have been buried in last night’s landslide in Niteroi, Brazil: “A top Rio de Janeiro state security official says at least 200 people have been buried in the latest landslide to hit the area. Civil Defense subsecretary Pedro Machado tells Globo television that the slide plowed into a slum in the city of Niteroi. Machado said Thursday that anyone there at the time …
8 April 2010 13:36 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
AP is reporting that over 200 people have been buried in last night’s landslide in Niteroi, Brazil: “A top Rio de Janeiro state security official says at least 200 people have been buried in the latest landslide to hit the area. Civil Defense subsecretary Pedro Machado tells Globo television that the slide plowed into a slum in the city of Niteroi. Machado said Thursday that anyone there at the time …
1 January 2010 16:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Latest update (3rd Jan 22:40 UT) here Updated 22:47 UT with revised fatality countUpdated with an additional photo Globo now has a more detailed report with images of the landslides today in Brazil that I covered in an earlier post. 1. The landslide at pousada Sankay (Sankai) in Praia do Bananal, Ilha GrandeNineteen (Nb updated from 14) bodies have now been found at the site of the lodge and in …
1 January 2010 15:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
News on these landslides has been updated here The Washington Post is reporting another substantive landslide in Brazil, this time on Ilha Grande, an island off the city of Angra dos Reis, near to Rio de Janeiro. The report says that the slide hit a vacation lodge and three houses, killing at least ten people. The original source of this story appears to be this Globo report, which carries an …
3 June 2009 20:48 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In some parts of the world, such as the Seattle area of the USA, wide area landslide warning systems are operated on the basis of rainfall thresholds. These are comparatively simple in essence – basically the combination of short term and long term rainfall that is needed to trigger landslides is determined, often using historical records of landslide events. A critical threshold is determined for the combination of these two …
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