1 April 2020 06:55 in Tailings by Dave Petley
More information on the Luming Mine tailings leak in China on 28 March 2020, including images of the disastrous downstream impacts
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, tailimgs dam, tailings
27 March 2020 07:41 in Conference by Dave Petley
The EGU2020 meeting in Vienna has been cancelled, but the organisers are allowing the research to be posted online, with discussion during the sessions
Tags: Austria, conference, EGU, featured, vienna
17 March 2020 07:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In 1919 a devastating eruption of Mount Kelud in Indonesia triggered massive lahars that killed 5,160 people on the flanks of the volcano
Tags: featured, indonesia, lahar, SE. Asia, volcano
30 July 2019 06:30 in Tailings by Dave Petley
13 large waste storage ponds at Baikalsk, on the banks of Lake Baikal, appear to be exceptionally vulnerable to landslides and debris flows.
Tags: featured, Russia, tailings, waste
8 July 2019 05:50 in Conference by Dave Petley
The Proceedings of the Second JTC1 Workshop: Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides
Tags: conference, featured, flow, proceedings
28 June 2019 06:31 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a simply wonderful paper just published in Reviews of Geophysics, which is open access, Fan et al. (2019) review the literature on chains of geologic hazards arising from large earthquakes, with a focus on the Ch-Chi and Wenchuan events.
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, paper, research, review, taiwan
21 June 2019 06:43 in Conference by Dave Petley
Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Monitoring, Modeling and Assessment:- the proceedings of the recent international conference are available online
Tags: conference, debris flow, debris flows, featured
28 February 2019 08:25 in Conference by Dave Petley
The organisers of the Second JTC-1 Workshop on Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides have placed the proceedings of the meeting online
Tags: conference, featured, flow, Hong Kong
16 January 2019 04:24 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new set of problems have emerged at the Hidroituango hydroelectric dam in Colombia, with drilling indicating the presence of a large void in the rock mass
15 May 2018 06:38 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review Ten years ago the most destructive seismic event in a generation, the Wenchuan Earthquake, struck the Longmenshan in Siichuan Province in China. I covered the event on this blog – indeed on 12th May 2008, at 07:27 UT, 29 minutes after the Earthquake occurred, I wrote: “it is reasonable to assume that this earthquake will have triggered large numbers of …
Tags: china, earthquake, East Asia, featured, research, Wenchuan
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