19 December 2012 08:25 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On Monday a landslide derailed a freight train Everett, near Seattle in Washington State, USA. The landslide was caught on a remarkable video
Tags: landslide video, rail, railway, train, USA, Washington State
25 September 2011 15:00 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Some remarkable new landslide videos have appeared this week: First, a nice new video has appeared on Youtube showing a landslide, reportedly from Uttrakhand in India, in action. It gets quite exciting at around the 3 minutes 45 second mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKID3LSOYrk And if you think it is interesting, take a look at this one, from Garwhal in India: This was also posted yesterday – definitely a landslide, but I am …
Tags: china, India, landslide video, USA
17 December 2010 09:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
NB the text below has been updated to reflect some very helpful comments from Susan Cannon. Genuine thanks to her for her help. The AGU Fall meeting continues like an unstoppable rhino, with a dizzying amount of sessions and a rapidly developing sense that my brain has become full. However, I will highlight here just two talks yesterday from the public communication of natural hazards session, both about the potential …
Tags: AGU, Californi, conference, debris flow, USA
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 …
Tags: house collapse, landslide report, retaining wall, San Antonio, Texas, USA
3 January 2008 16:59 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The New York Times today carries an interesting article here about destructive floods in Washington State resulting from a large storm in December. For me the interesting thing is an argument that appears to be raging as to whether the floods have resulted from measures to protect salmon fisheries, which have purportedly led to blockages forming in river channels, or from landslides and erosion that have resulted from logging. The …
Tags: landslide report, logging, N. America
11 July 2023 06:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In California a major landslide has occurred in Rolling Hills Estates, in Los Angeles County, reportedly damaging 12 houses.
Tags: california, drone video, featured, landslide report, North America, USA
21 June 2023 15:17 in landslide report, Monitoring by Dave Petley
A summary of the 15 June 2023 Brienz/Brinzauls rockslide collapse in the Swiss Alps by Simon Loew and his colleagues.
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, Switzerland
25 May 2023 07:07 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 14 May 2023 debris flow at Johnston Ridge Observatory Access Road, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington State, USA
Tags: featured, highway, landslide report, North America, USA, washington
21 April 2023 06:29 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.
Tags: china, coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, featured, research, review of a paper, Wenchuan
17 April 2023 06:45 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last week, concerns have been raised about a landslide that has developed in Arroyo Seco in Monterey County in California, USA.
Tags: california, featured, landslide report, USA
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