30 April 2020 05:56 in Conference by Dave Petley
The EGU General Assembly 2020 will be held online next week, and anyone can join. I thought it would be helpful to list the Landslide sessions in chronological order.
Tags: conference, EGU, featured, symposium
25 November 2019 07:20 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday, a landslide struck an elevated section of the A6 motorway on the road between Savona and Turin in Italy, causing the roadway to collapse
Tags: channelised, debris flow, Europe, featured, highway, Italy, landslide report, road
23 October 2019 06:36 in Research project by Dave Petley
Floods from valley-blocking landslides may play a key role in the carbon cycle, allowing wood to be transported from the high mountains to the deep ocean floor
Tags: carbon, dam, featured, global heating, paper, research
5 August 2019 06:15 in Coast by Dave Petley
On 2nd August 2019 a rock topple on Grandview Surf Beach near San Diego in California killed three women from a single family
Tags: california, coastal cliff, featured, North America, topple, USA
31 July 2019 20:54 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Many good landslide videos are emerging during a very active 2019 landslide season. I have put together a compilation of notable examples
Tags: featured, landslide videos
28 May 2019 06:29 in Tailings by Dave Petley
In Brazil another tailings dam, at the Gongo Soco mine in BarĂ£o de Cocais to the east of Belo Horizonte, is at risk of failure due to a rock wall collapse.
Tags: brazil, dam, rock slope, South America, tailings
20 April 2018 06:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
More information is now available about the Castell de Mur landslide in Spain on 16th April, including drone images, before and after photographs and the seismic traces
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, rockslide, Spain, topple
31 August 2017 06:53 in Landslide processes, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In an article this week in Nature, Jane Palmer describes the Maca landslide, a 60 million cubic metre slow-moving slide in Peru
Tags: creep, featured, landslide report, Peru, research, review of a paper, South America
29 August 2017 07:10 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Yesterday the Zhangjiawan landslide, a massive rockslope collapse in Guizhou,China,caused 35 fatalities. The landslide was caught on a remarkable video.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, landslide video, rockslide, rockslope, topple
19 August 2017 00:27 in obituary by Dave Petley
Last week my good friend, the pioneering landslide scientist and teacher, Professor Oldrich Hungr, sadly passed away in Grenoble, France
Tags: featured, obituary, Oldrich Hungr
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