5 October 2015 08:20 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report by Dave Petley
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in 2014.
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, valley blocking landslide, yunnan
30 September 2015 06:58 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Demolition has started of properties damaged by landslides in the Port Hills area of Christchurch during the 2010-2011 earthquakes. This post shows some of the photographs that I took shortly afterwards.
Tags: Christchurch, earthquake, featured, New Zealand, rockfalls
21 June 2015 09:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Last Sunday a flash flood killed at least 19 people and destroyed the zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia. The cause appears to have been the collapse of a landslide dam on the Vere River about 20 km upstream of the city
Tags: featured, Georgia, landslide dam, landslide report, valley blocking landslide
26 May 2015 06:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Sunday a landslide blocked the Kali Gandaki river in Nepal for about 15 hours before breaching to release a significant flood.
Tags: dam, earthquake, featured, landslide dam, nepal, South Asia, valley blocking landslide
8 September 2014 10:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Sunkoshi landslide dam in Nepal breached and drained early on Sunday morning. The discharge data suggests that the breach was initiated in response to increased river flow caused by heavy rainfall.
Tags: featured, landslide dam, landslide report, nepal, South Asia, sunkoshi
18 January 2013 08:07 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new Youtube video appears to show the aftermath of a very large landslide and breach event in March 2012 in Huaraz, Peru
Tags: Andes, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, Peru
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
Tags: earthquake, featured, Guatemala, landslide report, quarry
1 March 2012 09:05 in Attabad by Dave Petley
The Pamir Times reports that lake levels at Attabad have slowly fallen by 6 m since the removal of the coffer dam on Monday
Tags: Attabad, barrier lake, featured, landslide dam, pakistan
14 January 2012 20:16 in landslide images, landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
In December 2011 a severe rainstorm triggered landslides in Golden Bay, New Zealand. This post provides photos of the landslide damage.
Tags: debris flow, featured, flood, landslide images, landslide report, New Zealand, photographs
24 December 2011 09:17 in landslide report, typhoon by Dave Petley
News reports are suggesting that the last weeks Tropical Storm disaster in the Philippines was due to the collapse of landslide dams.
Tags: featured, landslide dam, landslide report, philippines, tropical storm, typhoon
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