5 November 2019 07:11 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The 5 km long ancient, earthquake triggered (?) Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
Tags: earthquake, featured, rock avalanche, tibet
2 October 2018 07:04 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The city of Palu appears to have suffered from three very large (over 1 km) landslides in the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, all causing huge amounts of damage
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, SE. Asia, sulawesi
3 November 2017 11:25 in mitigation by Dave Petley
A new report analyses options for managing the hazards in Franz Josef in New Zealand. It concludes that: “Do nothing is not an option”
Tags: earthquake, featured, hazard assessment, New Zealand, risk
5 June 2015 07:25 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Early reports suggest that the M=6.0 Malaysia earthquake this morning may have triggered landslides and rockfalls, especially on Mount Kinabalu, where five climbers are thought to have been killed.
Tags: earthquake, fatalities, featured, malaysia, rockfall, SE. Asia
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
23 March 2010 05:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The State of the Planet blog, which is the blog of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, reports on an ongoing investigation of the tsunami that killed a small number of people to the west of Port-au-Prince (image below from the National Geographic). The research has involved drilling cores into the sediment on the sea floor near to the tsunami. Their initial analysis suggests that the tsunami was caused by …
Tags: Haiti, submarine landslide, tsunami
16 June 2008 08:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At 08:43:46 local time on Saturday 14th June 2008 a magnitude Mw=6.8 (USGS initial estimate) struck eastern Honshu in Japan. Although this earthquake (now being called the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake) was not particularly large, it occurred at a shallow depth (10 km) below an area that is quite mountainous. This is an areas that is very landslide prone anyway, being subject to active tectonic processes and frequent typhoon rainfall events. …
Tags: 2008, earthquake, honshu, japan, landslide dam
16 June 2008 08:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At 08:43:46 local time on Saturday 14th June 2008 a magnitude Mw=6.8 (USGS initial estimate) struck eastern Honshu in Japan. Although this earthquake (now being called the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake) was not particularly large, it occurred at a shallow depth (10 km) below an area that is quite mountainous. This is an areas that is very landslide prone anyway, being subject to active tectonic processes and frequent typhoon rainfall events. …
Tags: 2008, earthquake, honshu, japan, landslide dam
14 April 2008 18:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Over the next few days I will try to write up some comments on issues that arise at the landslides sessions at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna. EGU is a massive meeting (c. 10,000 earth scientists), and the natural hazards section is one of the largest. The landslide field is the biggest component of natural hazards, so there is usually something for everyone. In total there are …
Tags: conference report, EGU, vienna
11 November 2020 08:42 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The Queja landslide in Guatemala: Planet Labs have now been able to capture satellite images of the site of the disaster
Tags: Central America, featured, Guatemala, hurricane, Planet Labs, satellite image
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