20 April 2019 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video has been posted to Youtube showing a very near-miss with an earthquake-triggered rockfall in Taiwan
Tags: earthquake, featured, landslide report, landslide video, rockfall, taiwan
3 April 2019 06:46 in Research project by Dave Petley
High resolution monitoring of a natural rock slope in the southern Japanese Alps has provided insight into the complexity of the timing of rockfalls
Tags: East Asia, featured, japan, montiring, research, rockfalls
29 October 2018 07:35 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
On 25th October 2018 an M=6.8 earthquake occurred at 14 km depth off the coast of Greece. The Zakynthos earthquake is reported to have triggered rockfalls
Tags: earthquake, Europe, featured, Greece, rockfall
3 July 2018 06:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 30th June a rockfall caused a freak fatal accident in Shimian County in Sichuan Province, China. The boulder penetrated and became wedged in the cab of a coach carrying 38 people, killing the driver.
Tags: china, coach, East Asia, featured, highway, road, rockfall
4 May 2018 07:13 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The Chinese news agency Xinhua has posted a dramatic rockfall video from Chongqing in China on 9th April 2018. Despite two boulders very nearly hitting a pick-up truck no-one was killed or injured
Tags: china, Chongqing, featured, landslide video, rockfall
9 April 2018 23:18 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Photographs taken from boats showed coastal cliff rockfalls on Santa Cruz island in California during the M=5.4 earthquake on Thursday 5th April
Tags: california, cliff, coast, earthquake, featured, North America
1 November 2016 07:01 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Authorities in Switzerland have hit upon a novel way to manage rockfall hazard by blasting it with heavy gunfire from a tank
Tags: Europe, featured, gunfire, landslide video, rockfall, Switzerland
26 August 2016 07:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Two new videos have been posted to Youtube showing the Kleine Gaisl rockfall events in the Dolomites of northern Italy last week
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, landslide video, rockfall, video
23 August 2016 07:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Last weekend Kleine Gaisl, a mountain in the Italian Dolomites, suffered a series of large rockfalls with a combined volume of about 700,000 cubic metres
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, landslide report, rockfall
18 June 2016 08:50 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a recent paper, Temme (2015) has used descriptions of rockfall risk in Alpine climbing guides to examine the effects of climate change on the degradation of permafrost and the resulting increased occurrence of rockfalls.
Tags: Alps, climate change, Europe, featured, paper, research, rockfalls, Switzerland
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