28 October 2011 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Rainfall records from Liguria this week suggest that peak rainfall intensities were truly exceptional – at one gauge they exceeded 140 mm per hour – leading to the flood and landslide disaster that affected northern Italy on Tuesday.
Tags: featured, Italy, precipitation, rainfall
26 October 2011 06:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Italy suffered very heavy rainfall yesterday, triggering landslides and floods. One landslide hit a truck in La Spezia.
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20 September 2011 07:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Latest information on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy
Tags: Bhutan, china, earthquake, featured, Guatemala, India, landslide report, nepal, tibet, typhoon
1 November 2010 16:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Today has been a busy day in the natural hazards world. Last night in unrealted incidents a sinkhole opened without warning in central Germany and a landslide killed a small child and his mother in Italy. Meanwhile, Hurricane Tomas has caused widespread destruction in St Lucia and is still forecast to pass directly over the earthquake-affected areas of Haiti.
Tags: featured, Germany, Haiti, hurrican, Italy, landslide report, sinkhole
16 February 2010 08:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
See update post here The BBC has an extraordinary video of a landslide in Maierato in Southern Italy. More later, but for now the link is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8517378.stm UPDATE: Youtube has a longer version of the video below: See update post here
Tags: Europe, Italy, landslide video
4 October 2009 07:13 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
1. PhilippinesTyphoon Parma (known as Pepeng in the Philippines) has churned its way across the northern part of Luzon in the Philippines. Fortunately, its track took it north of the most vulnerable area, which is the first bit of good news for a while: However, early reports are that the storm has triggered some landslides: “Rains in Benguet province set off landslides in which at least 12 people were killed, …
Tags: images, India, Italy, landslide report, philippines
6 April 2009 08:47 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
You will probably be aware that an apparently quite destructive earthquake struck central Italy overnight. I thought I’d try to give a first take on the likely impact of this event. First, as ever, there is some pretty good information about the earthquake on the USGS Earthquake program website. They have provided the following helpful maps: Earthquake location:Shaking intensity: Exposed population (PAGER): At this point (c. 8:00 UT) the USGS …
Tags: earthquake, Europe, Italy, L\'aquila
31 July 2023 07:09 in landslide video by Dave Petley
As heavy rainfall continues to affect many areas, two interesting new mudflow videos have been posted to Twitter.
Tags: china, East Asia, Europe, featured, Italy, landslide video, mudflow
28 March 2022 06:50 in Mining by Dave Petley
Ibri: on 27 March 2022 a large landslide in a marble quarry in Al-Dhahirah, Oman killed six workers and injured a further five people.
Tags: featured, landslide report, Middle East, mine, mining, Oman
22 February 2022 07:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study has found increased landslide activity in the months after the low-magnitude 2018 Molise earthquake in Italy
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, research, review of a paper
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