Landslide sessions at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting
4 August 2015 08:00 in Conference by Dave Petley
The abstract deadline for the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting is tomorrow (Wednesday). There are three very exciting landslide sessions.
4 August 2015 08:00 in Conference by Dave Petley
The abstract deadline for the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting is tomorrow (Wednesday). There are three very exciting landslide sessions.
13 March 2015 08:08 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last two days a massive and very spectacular landslide has developed in a reinforced slope at the end of the runway at Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia
5 June 2014 08:52 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Moving mountains: a new paper in Nature reveals an enormous programme of mountain top removal in China to create land for development. The landslide potential from such a project is high
12 May 2014 07:22 in by Dave Petley
The Rustaq landslide Whilst researching the Ab Barak landslide in Afghanistan last week, I came across this image of another landslide in Afghanistan: .. This is clearly a very large and very spectacular landslide that has induced a enormous amount of damage. The reports were that this slide was also triggered by the heavy rainfall of 10 days or so ago. However, I did some background research and found that …
3 October 2012 11:07 in obituary by Dave Petley
The renowned landslide geologist Earl Brabb, who worked for the USGS for 40 years, has recently died.
24 May 2011 07:02 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A brief examination of the new landslide susceptibility map for California
25 January 2010 17:00 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Updated here In the United States there is an interesting developing story about a large-scale retaining wall failure that is causing the collapse of a housing estate in San Antonio, Texas. The housing development, called the Rivermist subdivision, is the one shown in the Google Earth image below. It is still under construction. The marker shows the approximate location of the slide, as far as I can tell: According to …
30 December 2009 08:51 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The reinsurance giant Munich Re releases annual statistics on the losses from natural catastrophes each year. They released the data for 2009 yesterday, presumably banking on the balance of probabilities that there would be no more major events in the three days left of the year. The release is available here: http://www.munichre.com/en/press/press_releases/2009/2009_12_29_press_release.aspxOverall resultsThe news for 2009 is good, with no disasters causing mass (i.e. >10,000) fatalities. There list of the …
30 December 2009 08:51 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The reinsurance giant Munich Re releases annual statistics on the losses from natural catastrophes each year. They released the data for 2009 yesterday, presumably banking on the balance of probabilities that there would be no more major events in the three days left of the year. The release is available here: http://www.munichre.com/en/press/press_releases/2009/2009_12_29_press_release.aspxOverall resultsThe news for 2009 is good, with no disasters causing mass (i.e. >10,000) fatalities. There list of the …
30 January 2009 08:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I thought that it was high time to post a summary of some interesting landslide sites: Aowanda landslideThere is an interesting youtube video of a smallish progressive rockslide occurring at Aowanda in Taiwan here. It should also be visible below: Not quite as dramatic as some others, but useful nonetheless. Five disastrous landslides that changed the Canadian LandscapeThere is quite a nice non-scientific piece here that describes in non-technical language …
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