5 January 2021 20:51 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A high resolution satellite image has now been captured by Planet Labs of the Gjerdrum quick clay landslide in Norway
Tags: Europe, featured, Norway, Planet Labs, satellite image
14 December 2020 08:12 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The Eureka Valley Landslide in Death Valley National Park: a new paper (Shaller et al. 2020) on a beautifully-preserved, ancient, long runout failure.
Tags: california, featured, North America, paper, rock avalanche, sedimentaology, USA
13 November 2020 08:07 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Quang Nam Province in Vietnam: A terrifying video that shows why the aftermath of a landslide can be very dangerous
Tags: featured, landslide report, landslide video, road, SE. Asia, Vietnam
20 October 2020 06:56 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Hanyuan County: an initial analysis of the 21 August 2020 rainfall triggered landslide in China, which killed nine people
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, paper, research, sichuan
30 March 2020 06:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 27 March 2020 a large and unusual failure in a sand heap at the Guizhou Commercial Concrete Co in Guiyang in Guizhou province, China killed 7 people
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, heap, landslide report, sand
10 February 2020 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The exceptional mobility of tailings dam failures I’m continuing to write my paper for the keynote at the 13th International Symposium on Landslides in Colombia this year (the paper is due this month, so the pressure is on). As I noted in a post last week, I’ve been looking at the impact of landslides in less developed countries; one key component of this is the impact of failures associated with …
Tags: featured, mine, mining, research, tailings
29 January 2020 07:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new study (Li et al. 2020) has found that a specific weak pumice layer controlled landslides triggered by the M=6.7 September 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu earthquake
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, featured, japan, research
20 January 2020 07:15 in Tailings by Dave Petley
Last month the official Expert Panel released its report on the Feijao tailings dam disaster at Brumadinho in Brazil, which killed over 300 people.
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, South America, tailings
25 September 2019 06:21 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 24th September 2019 M=5.6 Mirpur earthquake in NW Pakistan appears to have generated some large lateral spreads along the banks of the Jhelum River.
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, liqufaction, pakistan, South Asia
17 June 2019 06:11 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 13th June 2019 a strong rainstorm struck Longyan City in Fujian province, southern China, triggering a major landslide that was captured on CCTV.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide video, weathered soil