8 January 2021 09:42 in Mining by Dave Petley
A new paper (Grebby et al 2021) uses InSAR to detect precursory deformation of the Brumadinho tailings dam before the disastrous failure in 2019. The authors suggest that the failure might have been predictable with use of appropriate monitoring techniques.
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, research, review, South America, tailings
26 December 2020 12:56 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The Carmen Copper Mine landslide in the Philippines – Planet Labs images showing the slope evolution before failure
Tags: featured, main, mining, Philippines. SE Asia, Planet Labs
10 December 2020 08:11 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Mindu in Tibet: a new open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences explores the detection of precursors of an imminent landslide using satellite images
Tags: East Asia, featured, monitoring, paper, research, tibet
28 October 2020 07:49 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Sepulveda et al 2020) describes the interesting Yerba Loca rockslide in central Chile
Tags: Chile, featured, paper, research, rockslide, South America
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
22 May 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As improved images and information become available, it is becoming possible to gain a better understanding of the cause of the Edenville Dam breach
Tags: breach, dam, featured, flood, Michigan, North Aerica, Planet Labs, USA
12 May 2020 06:13 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The Váráš rock slope deformation in Troms County in northern Norway, a 70 million cubic metre, 100 m deep creeping landslide.
Tags: DSGD, Europe, featured, INSAR, Norway, rockslide
22 April 2020 06:39 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Zongling: a new open access paper (Wang et al. 2020) in the Journal Landslides describes a new InSAR method to monitor landslide movement caused by coal mining in Guizhou Province, China
Tags: china, deformation, East Asia, featured, INSAR, monitoring
20 January 2020 07:15 in Tailings by Dave Petley
Last month the official Expert Panel released its report on the Feijao tailings dam disaster at Brumadinho in Brazil, which killed over 300 people.
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, South America, tailings
2 October 2019 07:15 in Research project by Dave Petley
A splendid new paper (Walter et al 2019) provides detailed analysis of the precursory behaviour leading up to the Anak Krakatau flank collapse in December 2018
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, SE. Asia, volcano
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