28 March 2017 06:51 in Conference by Dave Petley
In August 2017 the International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley will once again be held in Kyrgyzstan
Tags: Central Asia, course, featured, Kyrgyzstan, rock avalanche, summer school, training
27 March 2017 06:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 26th March a very large landslide occurred at Nichke-Sai in Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan, killing six people. Images suggest this may have been a loess landslide.
Tags: Central Asia, featured, Kyrgyzstan, landslide report, loess
2 May 2016 08:54 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Using Google Earth it is possible to track down the location of the Kyrgyzstan loess landslide. This is an area with many similar landslides, some of which have also displayed high levels of mobility.
Tags: Central Asia, featured, flowslide, Kyrgyzstan, landslide video
1 May 2016 09:24 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An astonishing video has appeared on Youtube showing a video in, I assume, loess in Kyrgyzstan a few days ago. The landslide killed a teenage boy.
Tags: Central Asia, flow, Kyrgyzstan, landslide video, loess
17 April 2009 07:48 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Each year in mid-April we move into the global “landslide season”, when the development of the Northern Hemisphere summer, and the associated weather patterns elsewhere, means that the number of landslides starts to increase dramatically. This is all too clear from the range of landslide events in the last few days, plus the threat of heavy rainfall in the earthquake affected areas of China: 1. Major landslide in PeruA range …
Tags: Afghanistan, china, Kyrgyzstan, landslide report, Peru, rainfall
12 December 2019 07:38 in Mining by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have captured wonderful before and after SkySat images of the enormous Kumtor gold mine landslide in Kyrgyzstan last week
Tags: Central Asia, featured, Kyrgyzstan, landslide report, mine, mining
27 September 2017 07:17 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper in the journal Engineering Geology, Qi et al. (2017) describe spectacular loess landslides from the Heifangtai terrace in China
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, flowslide, loess, research, review
4 May 2017 06:44 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Community slope SAFE is a new, low cost landslide warning system designed to protect vulnerable communities in less affluent countries.
Tags: enterprise, featured, landslide warning
17 May 2015 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Chinese news agencies are reporting a huge ice – rock avalanche in Akto County, Xinjiang, China. The reported volume is half a cubic kilometre!
Tags: avalanche, china, featured, glacier, ice - rock avalanche
8 July 2014 08:41 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The new paper by Robinson et al. 2014 describes the Komansu rock avalanche in Kyrgyzstan. This is an exceptionally large landslide that traveled about 28 km
Tags: Central Asia, featured, Kyrgyzstan, review of a plaper, rock avalanche
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