10 February 2020 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The exceptional mobility of tailings dam failures I’m continuing to write my paper for the keynote at the 13th International Symposium on Landslides in Colombia this year (the paper is due this month, so the pressure is on). As I noted in a post last week, I’ve been looking at the impact of landslides in less developed countries; one key component of this is the impact of failures associated with …
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29 January 2020 07:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new study (Li et al. 2020) has found that a specific weak pumice layer controlled landslides triggered by the M=6.7 September 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu earthquake
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, featured, japan, research
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
25 September 2019 06:21 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 24th September 2019 M=5.6 Mirpur earthquake in NW Pakistan appears to have generated some large lateral spreads along the banks of the Jhelum River.
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, liqufaction, pakistan, South Asia
17 June 2019 06:11 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 13th June 2019 a strong rainstorm struck Longyan City in Fujian province, southern China, triggering a major landslide that was captured on CCTV.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide video, weathered soil
13 May 2019 06:03 in Tailings by Dave Petley
A Perspectives article in Science (Santamarina et al. 2019) argues that we need a better understanding of the processes leading to tailings dam failures as well as greatly improved management and regulation of tailings facilities
Tags: featured, mine, mining, review, tailings, tailings dam failures
25 April 2019 06:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Tuesday morning a slope collapsed at a jade mine at Balakh village in Myanmar, killing 54 miners. This is the latest of a long series of such landslides in Myanmar.
Tags: featured, mine, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
10 April 2019 02:50 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
GEER has published a report on the Palu-Donggala landslides, triggered by the 28 September 2018 Mw=7.5 Palu earthquake in Indonesia
Tags: earthquake, featured, flowslide, indonesia, landslide report, SE. Asia
4 February 2019 07:35 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The two important videos showing the Brumadinho tailings dam landslide allow some estimates to be made of the speed of the movement.
Tags: brazil, dam, featured, liquefaction, mine, mining, South America, tailings
1 February 2019 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The human and environmental costs of the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil are becoming increasingly clear, whilst speculation continues as to the causes of the collapse of the tailings dam
Tags: brazil, Brumadinho, features, mine, mining, planet, South America, tailings
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