4 February 2010 20:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The woes of the families displaced by the slope failure at the Rivermist Subdivision in San Antonio, Texas have been exacerbated by a new phase of movement. AP Texas News reports that heavy rain has triggered additional cracking of the wall, and the movement of some debris. However, the houses at the top of the slope are apparently not moving. I have been wondering why they are so confident that …
Tags: landslide report, rotational landslide, San Antonio, Texas, USA
26 January 2010 16:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Reports suggest that ground movement has ceased in the Rivermist subdivision, which suffered a fairly spectacular retaining wall failure over the last few days. Attention is now focussing upon that retaining wall – and in particular on why it failed. This is a pretty key issue given the potential liabilities and its magnitude – the wall is 1000 feet (>300 m long). Press reports note two interesting aspects of this …
Tags: landslide report, retaining wall, San Antonio, USA
25 January 2010 17:00 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Updated here In the United States there is an interesting developing story about a large-scale retaining wall failure that is causing the collapse of a housing estate in San Antonio, Texas. The housing development, called the Rivermist subdivision, is the one shown in the Google Earth image below. It is still under construction. The marker shows the approximate location of the slide, as far as I can tell: According to …
Tags: house collapse, landslide report, retaining wall, San Antonio, Texas, USA
17 October 2008 09:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Tuesday morning a collapse occurred in a retaining wall being constructed for the foundations of a new tower block in the capital of Uganda, Kampala. Two images have been published online of the failure, which buried nine workers, killing eight of them: Monitor online image of the Pensions Towers collapse site New Vision image of the Pensions Towers collapse site Collapses like this are now quite rare in more …
Tags: Africa, construction, residual soil, retaining wall, urban
6 February 2023 07:22 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 6 February 2023 Mw=7.8 earthquake near Nurdağı in Gaziantep, Turkey is likely to have triggered substantial numbers of landslides
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, seismic, Turkey
8 January 2023 14:12 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Issues with the landslides in the town of Joshimath in India continue. There is much speculation as to the causes, which are likely to be complex.
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, South Asia, urban landslide
2 December 2022 07:34 in landslide report by Dave Petley
BR-376: on 28 November 2022 heavy rainfall triggered a large landslide on a highway in Brazil . At least two people were killed, whilst rescue operations are ongoing.
Tags: brazil, featured, highway, landslide report, road, South America
5 September 2022 07:08 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 2 September 2022 a major landslide occurred at a construction site at Clementi in Singapore, blocking a major drainage channel
Tags: featured, landslide report, SE. Asia, Singapore, urban landslide
2 September 2022 06:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Heavy rain has triggered multiple landslides in New Zealand over the last two months, causing extensive damage and disruption
Tags: featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rainfall, Wellington
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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