2 February 2023 07:28 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A paper in Science of the Total Environment (Svennevig et al. 2023) describes the 15 December 1952 Niiortuut landslide in Greenland. It concludes that this was one of the earliest anthropogenic warming-induced landslides identified to date.
Tags: featured, global warming, Greenland, permafrost, research, review of a paper
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
24 January 2023 07:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 20 January 2023 a large coastal cliff collapse at Blacks Beach, San Diego, California was captured on a truly amazing video.
Tags: california, coastal cliff, featured, landslide video, North America, rotational landslide, USA
23 December 2022 10:45 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
An open access paper in the journal Landslides (Cabral et al. 2022) analyses debris flows in Brazil over the last century, finding that 45 events have killed 5,771 people and generated US$5,5 billion in economic losses.
Tags: brazil, featured, research, review of a paper, South America
21 December 2022 07:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 19 December 2022 the Urni landslide in Kinnaur, India was captured on a dramatic video. The failure blocked a National Highway (NH-5).
Tags: featured, highway, hydroelectric, India, landslide report, landslide video, road, South Asia
16 November 2022 07:23 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 14 November 2022 a rockslide occurred at a quarry in Maudarh in Mizoram, India, killing 12 workers. The event was captured on video.
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, landslide video, mine, mining, quarry, S. Asia, South Asia
31 October 2022 07:03 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
At least 20 people were killed by a mudslide at Kusiong village in the Philippines on Thursday, triggered by Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae. The local people had been drilled to prepare for a storm surge, so sheltered upslope, where they were killed by a mudslide.
Tags: featured, landslide report, philippine, SE. Asia, tropical storm
27 October 2022 06:16 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Yucaipa: a remarkable debris flow video from the San Bernardino Mountains in California. The flows were triggered by heavy rainfall in the El Dorado fire scar on 12 September 2022
Tags: California. USA, debris flow, featured, landslide video, mudflow
10 October 2022 06:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 8-9 October 2022 a “landslide” disaster occurred at Las Tejerías in Venezuela, killing at least 30 people, and leaving a further 54 people missing.
Tags: city, debris flow, featured, landslide report, South America, urban
30 September 2022 07:00 in Database by Dave Petley
I have been pondering the number of large landslide disasters that occurred in the 1960s. This is an initial list that includes the landslide impacts of two of the greatest earthquakes in history and a series of landslides caused by dams and mining.
Tags: disaster, earthquake, featured, global database, landslide disasters, mining
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