7 December 2021 08:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Mira Mar landslide in Albany, Australia continues to move, causing extensive damage to a number of houses. Two properties will now be demolished.
Tags: australia, featured, houses, landslide report, residential
4 October 2021 06:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An interesting paper has just been published in the journal Science, (Cook et al. 2021), which looks at the seismic signals generated by the Chamoli rockslide and debris flow. It concludes that the event was fully detectable by seismic instruments located at up to 100 km from the event.
Tags: Chamoli, early warning, featured, India, research, rockslide, seismic, seismology, South Asia
7 September 2021 07:52 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A large landslide occurred on National Highway 5 in at Jeori in Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh on 6 September 2021. This event was captured in at least four different videos.
Tags: featured, highway, India, landslide report, landslide video, road, South Asia
8 February 2021 15:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The catastrophic landslide and flood in Chamoli in Uttarakhand: over the last 24 hours, using @Planet Labs and other images, we have crowd-sourced the sequence of events
Tags: debris flow, disaster, featured, India, rock avalanche, South Asia
10 December 2020 08:11 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Mindu in Tibet: a new open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences explores the detection of precursors of an imminent landslide using satellite images
Tags: East Asia, featured, monitoring, paper, research, tibet
28 October 2020 07:49 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Sepulveda et al 2020) describes the interesting Yerba Loca rockslide in central Chile
Tags: Chile, featured, paper, research, rockslide, South America
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
24 February 2020 07:20 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The Kandersteg rock avalanche is a 1.2 cubic kilometre rockslide that occurred in Switzerland about 3,200 years ago, according to new research
Tags: dating, Europe, featured, research, rock avalanche, Switzerland
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
14 January 2020 07:06 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Last week, BC Highways released an archive of images taken in the immediate aftermath of the 48 million cubic metre 1965 Hope Slide in British Columbia, Canada
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide images, landslide report, North America
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