15 October 2021 06:38 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The El Arrecife Landslide in Spain provides an excellent example of the way in which Google Street View can be used to help understand the movement of landslides that affect roads.
Tags: Europe, featured, highway, landslide report, reservoir, road, Spain, Street View
5 August 2019 06:15 in Coast by Dave Petley
On 2nd August 2019 a rock topple on Grandview Surf Beach near San Diego in California killed three women from a single family
Tags: california, coastal cliff, featured, North America, topple, USA
22 February 2019 07:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 17 February 2019 a >1 million cubic metre rockslide occurred at Longjin village in Guizhou Province. The failure was predicted using a monitoring system
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, monitoring, prediction
16 March 2018 17:21 in Conference by Dave Petley
The second JTC-1 workshop will be held from 3rd to 5th December 2018 in Hong Kong. The topic will be: Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides
Tags: conference, East Asia, featured, Hong Kong, meeting
3 October 2017 06:31 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
Murchison Hut: a skiers and climbers refuge closed by a large, progressive rockslide in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in South Island, New Zealand
Tags: featured, hazard, landslide report, New Zealand, progressive landslide, risk, satellite
16 October 2016 08:45 in Conference by Dave Petley
JTC1 is organising a three day workshop on Advances in Landslide Understanding to be held in Barcelona, Spain in May 2016
Tags: conference, featured, processes, workshop
17 June 2016 07:03 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in the journal landslides, Haque et al (2016) present data on fatal landslides in Europe between 1995 and 2014
Tags: database, fatal, fatalities, featured, paper, review
29 January 2013 08:56 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
In the last few weeks there has been an unusual amount of landslide activity worldwide. This is just a few of the more interesting events, there are many more that I’ll try to cover in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who has pointed them out to e, and apologies if I have not acknowledged your contribution or covered your story yet. Please do keep them coming! 1. The …
Tags: boulder, featured, landslide report, New Zealand, pakistan, retaining wall, rock avalanche, rockfall, Spain, USA
16 August 2012 00:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
Tags: database, featured, global, landslide report, paper, research
18 November 2011 08:42 in Art by Dave Petley
A new post in the series on the ways in which landslides are depicted in art: this time Low Tide by Arthur Homeshaw
Tags: art, coastal erosion, costa, Devon, featured, UK
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