Helicopter images and other resource for the landslide dams in Japan
28 September 2011 06:52 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
An update, with links to resources, about the five valley blocking landslides in southern Japan
28 September 2011 06:52 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
An update, with links to resources, about the five valley blocking landslides in southern Japan
2 April 2010 16:44 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
(corrected 3rd April) As I noted yesterday, a new (third) seepage point has appeared on the downstream face of the Attabad landslide dam. A video has been posted on Youtube of the first seepage point. It is worth a view: Note that water now appears to be flowing into this seepage point under pressure, which is a worry. The volume of water at this seepage point is the largest of …
19 February 2010 07:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thanks to Lynn Highland for the heads-up on this one. The French language website cyberpresse.ca has an article describing a valley blocking landslide triggered by the Haiti earthquake. The translation says: “The dam is large and there are still several tens of metres before the water passes over it. The problem is that it has hardly rained since the earthquake of January 12. When the rainy season triggers, a few …
9 February 2010 21:09 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The largest landslide in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at Hattian, 25 km or so from Muzaffarabad: My colleagues and I wrote a paper on this landslide a few years ago (you can download the pdf here). It was notable for the fact that it blocked the valley – in the aftermath the Pakistan Army built a spillway to ensure that uncontrolled overtopping did not occur. The landslide has been …
25 January 2010 05:23 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Pamir Times continues to provide excellent coverage of the state of the landslide dam at Attabad in Hunza, N. Pakistan (see earlier posts here, here, here and here). First, they have posted another remarkable image of the landslide in action: Second they have provided various reports on the state of the efforts to mitigate the rising water level and to reopen the highway. It is clear that the road …
25 May 2008 14:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In view of the ongoing deep concern about the stability of the >30 landslide dams in Sichuan (now known in the press as “quake lakes”), and in particular the one upstream at Beichuan, I thought it might be helpful to provide a brief review of what we know about landslide dams. First, there us a great deal of literature on this topic. For example, Schuster and Costa (1991) detailed 463 …
4 October 2022 06:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Beshbadam landslide is a 4.4 km long failure in loess, triggered by a rain on snow event in Kyrgyzstan in the Spring of 1969.
16 May 2022 07:03 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Damaging landslides have occurred as a result of heavy rainfall in Assam state in the northeast of India over the weekend.
13 January 2022 07:29 in Mining by Dave Petley
The 8 January 2022 Pau Branco landslide in mine waste – CCTV footage has now emerged showing the overtopping of the dam
16 November 2021 07:38 in landslide report by Dave Petley
An atmospheric river rainfall event on Sunday and Monday caused large numbers of landslides in British Columbia, Canada.
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