4 September 2011 20:26 in landslide report, typhoon by Dave Petley
Typhoon Talas has caused widespread damage and disruption in southern Japan over the last 24 hours. At least 20 people have been killed, and 50 more are reported to be missing.
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31 May 2011 07:25 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Two articles have been published this week in Science Express, the rapid online version of the journal Science, on the mechanics of the rupture event of the M=9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake in Japan earlier this year. Both shed some light on the reasons why the earthquake was so immensely damaging. In the first, Simons et al. (2011) (NB link is a pdf, as the two below) have investigated the magnitude of …
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11 March 2011 08:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A first report of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan today
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6 February 2009 09:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
There has been an extraordinary flurry of landslide videos of late (e.g. here) presumably reflecting both the high occurrence of landslide events and the ubiquity video sharing sites. Another has appeared this morning – this time from Japan. The video should be embedded below or can be viewed here. Watch more LiveLeak videos on AOL Video I guess this is not as spectacular as for example this one, this one …
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21 June 2008 12:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Many thanks to reader Ripendra for alerting me to the following, and indeed for doing nearly all the work for this post. The 14th June 2008 earthquake in Japan is known to have triggered a number of landslides, as per earlier posts, but the most notable appears to have occurred at Aratozawa Dam in Miyagi prefecture. The Aratozawa Dam (Figure 1) is a rockfill dam used for flood control, irrigation …
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16 June 2008 08:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At 08:43:46 local time on Saturday 14th June 2008 a magnitude Mw=6.8 (USGS initial estimate) struck eastern Honshu in Japan. Although this earthquake (now being called the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake) was not particularly large, it occurred at a shallow depth (10 km) below an area that is quite mountainous. This is an areas that is very landslide prone anyway, being subject to active tectonic processes and frequent typhoon rainfall events. …
Tags: 2008, earthquake, honshu, japan, landslide dam
16 June 2008 08:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At 08:43:46 local time on Saturday 14th June 2008 a magnitude Mw=6.8 (USGS initial estimate) struck eastern Honshu in Japan. Although this earthquake (now being called the Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake) was not particularly large, it occurred at a shallow depth (10 km) below an area that is quite mountainous. This is an areas that is very landslide prone anyway, being subject to active tectonic processes and frequent typhoon rainfall events. …
Tags: 2008, earthquake, honshu, japan, landslide dam
11 July 2023 06:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In California a major landslide has occurred in Rolling Hills Estates, in Los Angeles County, reportedly damaging 12 houses.
Tags: california, drone video, featured, landslide report, North America, USA
30 September 2022 07:00 in Database by Dave Petley
I have been pondering the number of large landslide disasters that occurred in the 1960s. This is an initial list that includes the landslide impacts of two of the greatest earthquakes in history and a series of landslides caused by dams and mining.
Tags: disaster, earthquake, featured, global database, landslide disasters, mining
8 February 2022 08:13 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
New Planet Labs satellite imagery allows a better understanding of the deadly 31 January 2022 mudflow in the La Gasca suburb of Quito, Ecuador
Tags: Ecuador, featured, mudflow, Planet Labs, satellite imagery, South America
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