29 June 2011 17:43 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A short description and video of an intriguing “mini-tsunami” off the south coast of England on Monday. Reports attribute it to a submarine landslide, but more information is needed to ascertain whether this is really the case.
Tags: featured, submarine landslide, tsunami, UK
22 March 2010 04:20 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The NW Rota volcano is located in the Mariana Volcanic Arc, about 100 km north of Guam at a depth of about 520 below sea level. NSF currently funds an scientific expedition to this active volcano; a scientific cruise to this site is currently occurring. The team are running a blog of their experiences and findings – it is here. Yesterday they reported that in the time since their 2009 …
Tags: submarine landslide, volcanic landslide
30 August 2008 03:16 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The award for the strangest landslide story of the week goes to this one, from southern Africa. Late last week reports started to emerge of strange tidal patterns around the southern Cape of Africa (Fig. 1). Fig. 1: Google Earth image of the southern Cape of Africa, showing the location of St Helena Bay and Plattenburg Bay. In particular, on 21st August at about 8:45 am (local time) a series …
Tags: 2008, Africa, earthquake, tsunami
4 February 2022 07:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 16 October 1979 a landslide in fill at Nice airport triggered a massive submarine landslide and tsunami, which killed at least 8 people.
Tags: Europe, featured, France, submarine landslide, tsunami
16 December 2020 07:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A massive rockslope failure and 13 km long debris flow near to Bute Inlet in British Columbia, Canada in late November
Tags: Canada, featured, glacier, landslide report, North America, Planet Labs, video
20 May 2020 05:45 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In Midland County, Michigan collapse is underway of Edenville dam, driven by heavy rainfall. Reports suggest that a second dam may also be failing.
Tags: dam, dam failure, featured, Michigan, North America, USA
4 May 2020 06:23 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Friday 1 May 2020 a major collapse occurred in the earth-filled dam of Sardoba Reservoir in Uzbekistan, causing extensive flooding.
Tags: conference, dam, dam failure, diversity, featured, Uzbekistan, West Asia
4 September 2019 06:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands In a paper just published in the journal Landslides, Blahůt et al. (2019) describe the compilation of a new global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands. This database is hosted on the website of the Institute of Rock Structure & Mechanics. The authors note that “the records can be downloaded as a spreadsheet or as a kml file for interrogation …
Tags: database, dataset, featured, research, volcanic landslide, volcano
19 February 2019 08:43 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
A paper has recently been posted to EarthArXiv providing an analysis of the flank failure of Anak Krakatau on 22 Dec 2018, which generated a tsunami that killed 431 people.
Tags: Anak Krakatau, featured, flank collapse, indonesia, SE. Asia, volcano
3 January 2019 08:49 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Anak Krakatau: @planetlabs have captured excellent imagery, including a high resolution SkySat view, of the aftermath of the landslide
Tags: featured, indonesia, Krakatau, Planet Labs, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
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