22 July 2020 08:13 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
On 20 July 2020 a 10 million cubic metre landslide occurred in the Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei, China, blocking the Quinjiang River.
Tags: china, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, loess, valley blocking landslide
18 June 2020 06:46 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Quick clay landslides: a documentary film made by NGI, posted to Youtube about the Rissa landslide, illustrates the strange properties of quick clays .
Tags: feature, landslide video, Norway, quick clay
16 June 2020 07:24 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new landslide videos: a large landslide in a mine in Russia & dashcam footage of a small but high impact rockfall in California
Tags: california, featured, landslide video, mining, quarry, rockfall, Russia, video
5 June 2020 06:40 in landslide video by Dave Petley
New footage has been posted to Youtube showing the Alta Quick Clay landslide, including drone imagery of the aftermath of the main failure
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide video, Norway, quick clay, quick clay landslide
15 May 2020 06:20 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A team of scientists has identified a potentially massive (500 million cubic metre) rock slope failure above Barry Glacier in Alaska
Tags: Alaska, creep, featured, North America, rockslope, tsunami, USA
19 March 2020 07:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In May 1971 the Saint Jean Vianney landslide, a very large failure in a sensitive clay, destroyed 40 houses and killed 31 people in Canada
Tags: Canada, features, landslide report, North America, quick clay, sensitive clay
18 December 2019 07:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Late on Friday 13 December 2019 a large wedge failure developed on a cut rock slope on the E18 motorway at Larvik in Norway
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, Norway, road, rockslide, wedge
6 August 2019 06:21 in Database by Dave Petley
In July 2019 I recorded the highest monthly number of fatal landslides since I started to collect the data in 2012. In total, I recorded 100 fatal landslides
Tags: database, fatal landsldies, fatalities, featured, global heating
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
22 November 2018 08:23 in landslide images by Dave Petley
NPA Satellite Mapping have completed a pre-failure analysis of the Fagraskogarfjall landslide in Iceland using InSAR data. Up to 2 metres of movement occurred in the year before the main collapse.
Tags: creep, Europe, featured, INSAR, mapping, satellite
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