4 January 2021 06:30 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Understanding the Trotternish landslide complex on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, perhaps the most beautiful landslides on Earth?
Tags: ancient landslide, Europe, featured, Scotland
29 July 2020 11:12 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new article in the journal Landslides (Li et al. 2020) describes the Niushou landslide in Jiangsu, China, which was triggered by construction works for a hotel complex.
Tags: case study, china, construction, East Asia, featured, paper, research
16 June 2020 07:24 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new landslide videos: a large landslide in a mine in Russia & dashcam footage of a small but high impact rockfall in California
Tags: california, featured, landslide video, mining, quarry, rockfall, Russia, video
28 May 2020 06:19 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recent paper (Latrubesse et al. 2020) suggests that the catastrophic July 2018 Xe Nammoy hydropower complex dam failure in Laos might have been caused by piping and slope failure of the dam, a mechanism that is similar to the #Edenville dam failure.
Tags: dam, dam failure, featured, Laos, SE. Asia
5 March 2020 07:26 in Oddities by Dave Petley
A geological detour to visit to the outcrop of the famous “Geotimes” pillow lavas in the Semail Ophiolite at Wadi Jizzi in Oman
Tags: featured, geology, lava, Middle East, Oman
5 December 2019 07:41 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Regular correspondent funkenbeachin has used ESA Sentinel multispectral satellite data to facilitate analysis of the Blackhawk rock avalanche
Tags: california, featured, landslide video, North America, rock avalanche, satellite, Sentinel, USA
15 November 2019 08:08 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The fascinating 9 km long, 300 million cubic metre, highly complex, ancient Blackhawk landslide in the Lucerne valley of California.
Tags: california, featured, landslide report, USA
18 June 2019 05:59 in Database by Dave Petley
We have now posted the full Global Fatal Landslide Database online. This new version adds a further year of data, covering 2004 to 2017 inclusive.
Tags: database, datal, dataset, fatality, featured
8 February 2019 08:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Submarine landslides can creep too: we have just published a paper (Carey et al. 2019) in the journal Geomorphology exploring the mechanisms of movement of the Tuaheni landslide offshore from New Zealand
Tags: experiments, featured, New Zealand, research, submarine landslide
8 April 2018 23:13 in Database, landslide costs by Dave Petley
A first analysis of fatal landslides, and the resultant deaths, in 2017. In terms of the number of events, 2017 was the third worst year since I started collecting data in late 2002. In total, 453 different landslides killed 4,164 people.
Tags: database, fatal landslide, fatality, featured
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