24 May 2009 03:39 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
CKC, the slope engineering division of the Malaysian Public Works Department, have put together a website to provide advice to the public on slope safety: http://slopes.jkr.gov.my/Slopesafety/default.html Using a very simple structure, it provides a mass of very straightforward advice on what landslides are, why they happen, how to determine whether a slope problem is developing, and what to do in the event of a landslide. Whilst it clearly has a …
Tags: advice, education, malaysia, slope safety
1 January 2009 17:20 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I have only briefly touched upon the 6th December 2008 landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa in Kuala Lumpur, which has been a very high profile event in Malaysia. I don’t intend to comment on any aspect of the landslide – GiB has covered it in his own style in the oddly-named Landslide under Microscope blog – see here, here and here. Interestingly though a new Blog has appeared called Save Bukit …
Tags: Kuala Lumpur, landslide blog, malaysia, victims
16 November 2008 01:02 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Shield your eyes from the photograph though… People pressure on land has a telling effect
Tags: climate change, malaysia, newspaper article, population
3 November 2008 15:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The following is my presentation at the International Symposium on Slopes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is an invited paper on the topic of landslides in Asia in relation to climate change and other environmental pressures. I hope you find it of interest. The file should appear below: http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?p=102769_633612995446250000Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Dr_Dave If you cannot see the file then click on the highlighted Dr_Dave link above. The full Powerpoint …
Tags: climate change, conference report, deforestation, population, presentation file, SE. Asia
11 November 2020 08:42 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The Queja landslide in Guatemala: Planet Labs have now been able to capture satellite images of the site of the disaster
Tags: Central America, featured, Guatemala, hurricane, Planet Labs, satellite image
15 December 2019 13:52 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
High quality imagery is now available on Google Earth showing the hundreds of landslides on Mount Kinabalu triggered by the 5 June 2015 M=6.0 earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, malaysia, miuntain, rockfall, SE. Asia
20 April 2019 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video has been posted to Youtube showing a very near-miss with an earthquake-triggered rockfall in Taiwan
Tags: earthquake, featured, landslide report, landslide video, rockfall, taiwan
20 December 2018 07:24 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Tuesday an impressive, large retaining wall failure destroyed a section of a four lane highway in Surabaya, East Java in Indonesia
Tags: featured, indonesia, landslide report, retaining wall, SE. Asia
10 July 2018 06:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Sunday a comparatively small geotechnical failure triggered a train derailment in Turkey, killing 24. The accident serves to illustrate the need for vigilance on earthworks on the railway network.
Tags: culvert, embankment, Europe, featured, landslide report, rail, railway, train, Turkey
30 January 2018 08:26 in landslide video by Dave Petley
It has been a while since I posted any footage, so here are three landslide videos, including one showing a very narrow escape for the passengers on a bus
Tags: china, featured, landslide video, malaysia, Slovakia
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