2 November 2010 03:33 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A recent post was centred on images of the fault rupture of the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake in New Zealand. This post uses images provided by Malcolm Teasdale of Kiwirail to show the kine buckling that occurred on a railway track at the point that it crossed area of the surface fault expression close to Rolleston at the east end of the fault system.
Tags: earthquake, featured, New Zealand, railway
25 September 2010 01:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
News today of three different incidents from around the world: 1. New Zealand NZ Herald reports that a milk train hit a landslide in Manawatu Gorge. Fortunately there were no injuries, or even a need to cry over spilt milk… 2. India Bangalore Mirror reports that three coaches of the Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore Express train were buried by a landslide in a narrow cutting at Mulunthurthy. Three people were injured, plus there …
Tags: Canada, featured, India, landslide report, New Zealand, train
12 April 2010 13:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A landslide (frana in Italian) occurred this morning at Merano, near to Bolzano in northern Italy, striking a train that was derailed. Reports suggest that 11 9 people were killed and a further 30 were injured. This is a Google Earth image of Merano with a railway line marked in black, but I am not sure where the accident occurred or even if it is in this image. Il Giornale …
Tags: Italy, landslide report, railway, train
20 June 2023 07:02 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 30 June 2022 a landslide at Tupul, in Manipur, India, killed 61 people. A new paper (Baruah et al. 2023) provides an initial analysis, concluding that the failure was caused by poor construction and triggered by heavy rainfall.
Tags: construction, featured, India, railway, review of a paper, South Asia
1 February 2023 07:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Wang et al. 2023) describes the 15 September 2022 Jiujiawan landslide in Qinghai province, China, which destroyed a section of a high speed railway line.
Tags: china, featured, high speed rail, landslide report, Qinghai, rainway line, review of a paper, train
25 January 2023 08:00 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Yan et al. (2023) discuss the 30 August 2020 debris flow at Azijue village in Sichuan, China, which killed three people and destroyed two villages. The losses were caused by an unusual secondary failure of ancient deposits in the channel bed.
Tags: china, debris flow, featured, review of a paper, sichuan
7 November 2022 07:31 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In May 2022 heavy rainfall triggered many landslides at Dima Hasao district in Assam, India. In a new paper in the journal Landslides, Roy et al. (2022) have mapped >5000 individual slides in this event.
Tags: Assam, featured, India, railway, research, review of a paper, South Asia, trains
4 August 2022 06:47 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 26 July 2016 a 3.1 million cubic metre landslide occurred at a high wall coal mine at Fushun in China, causing extensive damage. The failure is documented in a new paper (Sun et al. 2022) in the journal Landslides.
Tags: Chine, coal mine, East Asia, featured, landslide report, mine, mining, research, review of a paper
15 July 2022 07:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Recent heavy rainfall has triggered landslides in parts of eastern Australia, causing damage to railway lines and properties
Tags: australia, featured, landslide report, railway, riverbank, train
8 July 2022 06:45 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The Tupul landslide occurred at the site of a major construction project involving slope excavation, but officials are blaming poor farming methods for the failure
Tags: excavation, farming, featured, India, landslide report, railway, South Asia
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