10 June 2020 07:20 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new study published in Science Advances (Wang et al. 2020) shows that rainstorms tend to trigger landslides that sculpt the landscape at lower levels, whilst earthquake induced landslides cause erosion at higher elevations.
Tags: earthquake, featured, geomorphology, mountain, New Zealand, rainfall, research
9 June 2020 07:01 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal landslides (Massey et al. 2020) has mapped almost 30,000 landslides triggered by the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, Kaikoura, New Zealand
2 June 2020 06:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study (Shafique 2020) published in the journal Geomorphology shows that landslide activity remained high for at least 13 years after the Kashmir earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, Kashmir, research, S. Asia
29 January 2020 07:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new study (Li et al. 2020) has found that a specific weak pumice layer controlled landslides triggered by the M=6.7 September 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu earthquake
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, featured, japan, research
15 December 2019 13:52 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
High quality imagery is now available on Google Earth showing the hundreds of landslides on Mount Kinabalu triggered by the 5 June 2015 M=6.0 earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, malaysia, miuntain, rockfall, SE. Asia
19 November 2019 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study (Barth et al. 2019) has mapped the landslides triggered by the 27 October 2012 Mw=7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake in British Columbia, Canada
Tags: Canada, coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, North America, paper, research
18 November 2019 07:31 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
On the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, a new study suggests that tsunamigenic submarine landslides may be more common than we thought
Tags: Canada, featured, North America, submarine landslide, tsunami
12 November 2019 07:23 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Barangay Bato landslide cluster from the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines, captured by Planet Labs satellites
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, Planet Labs, SE. Asia
11 November 2019 07:23 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
At least two distinct clusters of landslides were triggered by the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines. This post provides Planet Labs images of the cluster at Baragay Buhay.
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, Planet Labs, satellite image, SE. Asia
4 November 2019 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A sequence of earthquakes in Cotabato in the Philippines in late October 2019 has triggered a number of large landslides, causing at least seven fatalities
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, SE. Asia
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