7 April 2022 07:55 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in the journal Landslides (Garcia-Delgado, Petley et al. 2022), we have examined the history of fatal landslides in Colombia. The results are quite surprising.
Tags: Colombia, databse, featured, landslide fatalities, research, review of a paper, S. America, South America
29 March 2022 06:26 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
An earthquake on 25 February 2022 triggered multiple landslides on the flanks of Mount Talakmau in west Sumatra, Indonesia.
Tags: earthquake, featured, indonesia, lahar, Planet Labs, satellite imagery, SE. Asia, volcano
6 November 2020 08:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Hurricane Eta: news reports indicate that dozens of people have been killed by landslides in Central America, with at least 50 deaths in Guatemala alone
Tags: Central America, costa rica, featured, Guatemala, Honduras, hurricane, landslide report, Nicaragua, Panama
28 February 2020 08:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Salkantay landslide was a wedge failure in the near-vertical rock mass. The mass fragmented on impact to form a rock/ice avalanche that transitioned to a mudflow.
Tags: featured, mudflow, Peru, rock and ice avalanche, South America
12 January 2017 07:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last few days heavy rainfall has triggered a number of major landslides that have affected the towns of Volcan and Tumbaya in Argentina
Tags: argentina, lahar, landslide report, South America
19 April 2016 07:24 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Drone footage and high quality images are now becoming available of the Kumamoto Earthquake landslides in Japan. In some cases the landslides appear to be remarkable.
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, featured, flowslide, japan, Kumamoto, lahar, landslide report
22 August 2015 05:30 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
On 13th August a series of debris flows occurred on the flanks of Mount Rainier in Washington State, USA. These glacier collapse events were captured on video, photographs & seismic instruments
Tags: debris flow, featured, glacier, GLOF, lahar, landslide report, N. America, North America, USA, volcano
30 January 2013 08:54 in landslide images by Dave Petley
. Lynn Highland, a Geographer with the Landslide Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is joining the USGS Library in a project to compile an archive of copyright free, high-resolution (if possible) photographs of all aspects of landslides. These contributed photos would be archived permanently with, and obtainable through, the USGS Library website, which can be accessed here: http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/index.html The photographs archived at the library are public domain and …
Tags: featured, landslide images, USGS
21 January 2012 02:00 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A compilation of the best landslide videos on the internet
Tags: featured, landslide video
24 January 2011 07:53 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
There is a great deal of discussion in the landslide community as to whether trends in landslide occurrence are upwards. Data from the Interb=national Landslide Centre database for the last seven years are used to show that the number of landslides that kill people in Asia appears to be increasing, whilst the number of people killled shows a far less clear trend, but may be dominated by the effects of El Nino events.
Tags: Asia, database, featured, landslide report
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