8 February 2021 15:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The catastrophic landslide and flood in Chamoli in Uttarakhand: over the last 24 hours, using @Planet Labs and other images, we have crowd-sourced the sequence of events
Tags: debris flow, disaster, featured, India, rock avalanche, South Asia
7 February 2021 11:31 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
Chamoli: what do we know about the catastrophic flood that occurred in Uttarakhand in northern India this morning?
Tags: featured, flood, glacier, HEP, India, South Asia
16 October 2020 07:30 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Harrison Lake: a nice paper in the journal Landslides (Hughes et al 2020) describes newly discovered, large, ancient landslide deposits in Canada. The two largest landslides would have been tsunamigenic.
Tags: Canada, featured, lake, North America, paper, research, tsunami
14 October 2020 06:56 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A double tragedy: two landslides close to the construction site of the Rao Trang 3 hydroelectric plant in Vietnam
Tags: featured, hydroelectric, landslide report, SE. Asia, Vietnam
26 May 2020 06:03 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper published in Scientific Reports (Dini et al. 2020), and thus open access, uses InSAR to show movements of a large slope adjacent to the under construction Punatsangchhu I dam in Bhutan
Tags: Bhutan, dam, featured, Himalayas, hydroelectric, INSAR
20 June 2019 06:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Intense rainfall yesterday (19 June 2019) in Turkey triggered a series of devastating debris flows in Arakli, close to the Black Sea coast, killing up to 14 people.
Tags: debris flow, Europe, featured, Turkey
18 January 2019 08:09 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Hidroituango: the complex geology behind the problems in the mountain, with suggestions that the powerhouse cavern might lie at the intersection of 2 faults
Tags: Colombia, dam, featured, hidroituango, South America
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
4 January 2019 10:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
2018 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary landslides. This is my list of the ten most important landslide events of 2018
Tags: featured, global, important, landslide impacts, landslides
9 October 2018 06:27 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has been posted showing a major rockslope failure at Shongtong in Kinnaur, northern India. Workers at the foot of the slope had a very near miss.
Tags: featured, HEP, hydroelectric, India, landslide report, rockfall, South Asia
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