4 August 2022 06:47 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 26 July 2016 a 3.1 million cubic metre landslide occurred at a high wall coal mine at Fushun in China, causing extensive damage. The failure is documented in a new paper (Sun et al. 2022) in the journal Landslides.
Tags: Chine, coal mine, East Asia, featured, landslide report, mine, mining, research, review of a paper
18 May 2017 06:35 in landslide images by Dave Petley
This is the first edition of an occasional series on landslides that make you gasp, featuring the Yallourn coal mine landslide in Australia in 2007.
Tags: australia, coal mine, featured, mining, rotational landslide
24 January 2022 08:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thelkoloi: another tailings failure, this time in India On Thursday 20 January 2022 another tailings failure occurred, this time at Thelkoloi in Odisha, India. The failure has been reported in some of the media in India, but not more widely. For example, the Hindustan Times reports that the failure was in a slurry pond from the JSW Bhushan Power and Steel Limited works in Sambalpur district. It suggests that a …
Tags: featured, India, mine, mine waste, mining, South asia South africa, tailings
18 March 2021 07:26 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
Retrogressive breach failures, are coastal flow slides that occur naturally in fine sands near dynamic tidal channels or rivers
Tags: featured, paper, research, video
15 March 2021 08:22 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Knappensee: a large landslide at an old open cast mining site in eastern Germany on 11 March 2020, which was captured on video, generated a 1.5 m high tsunami that damaged property on the far side of the lake
Tags: Europe, fatured, Germany, lake, mine, mining, tsunami
10 July 2018 06:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Sunday a comparatively small geotechnical failure triggered a train derailment in Turkey, killing 24. The accident serves to illustrate the need for vigilance on earthworks on the railway network.
Tags: culvert, embankment, Europe, featured, landslide report, rail, railway, train, Turkey
12 June 2017 06:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday, an 80 million cubic metre landslide occurred at Anargyroi in Greece as a result of the collapse of the slopes bordering a lignite mine
Tags: coal, Europe, featured, Greece, landslide report, mine, mining
15 June 2015 06:38 in Art by Dave Petley
Laura Siersema, an American composer, has written a modern composition to mark the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster next year
Tags: Aberfan, art, featured, music, UK, Wales
10 February 2014 07:46 in landslide video, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Three new videos have been brought to my attention – one showing a slow avalanches in Italy and two rockslides, one on the coast and one in a quarry
Tags: avalanche, featured, Italy, landslide report, landslide video, rockslide
10 August 2013 16:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Friday a large landslide killed at least four people at Senboku in Akita Province in Japan
Tags: featured, japan, landslide report
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