4 October 2016 07:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Sucun Village landslide in China killed 27 people, whilst there are worrying prospects of landslides in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew
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18 June 2010 08:07 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Alongside the continuing Attabad crisis, here is a summary of the last week in landslide events (in no particular order). The list is not exhaustive by any account, but these are the stories that caught my eye: 1.The Oliver debris flow in CanadaI covered this event in a post or two earlier in the week. It is now clear that the trigger was the overtopping and eventual failure (through a …
10 August 2009 20:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As soon as I had posted the round-up of catastrophic landslides below another one appeared on the newswires, this time in Mainland China. Xinhua is reporting that Typhoon Marakot has triggered a landslide in Pengxi Township, Taishun County in Zhejiang Province, burying half a dozen apartment blocks: “A massive landslide occurred in an eastern Chinese town Monday night, causing six or seven apartment buildings to collapse and burying an unknown …
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