16 August 2012 00:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
Tags: database, featured, global, landslide report, paper, research
7 March 2012 08:22 in landslide report by Dave Petley
I have obtained an image of the Tumbi Quarry site before the landslide. There are some very interesting features.
Tags: featured, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, quarry, Tumbi
10 February 2012 09:31 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
As a bit of light-hearted relief from the Philippines and Papua New Guinea landslides, here are two interesting landslide items. First, with a hat-tip to Greg Springer, there is a new landslide video on Youtube. It is another good one (despite the music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Px-73K_4SU According to the Youtube page “The landslide occurred summer 2011 in Athens County, Ohio during construction of a new road.” I will update the ultimate landslide …
Tags: France, landslide video, rockfall, USA
27 April 2020 06:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have succeeded to collecting high resolution SkySat imagery of the Tendepo landslide in Papua New Guinea on 21 March 2020
Tags: featured, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, Planet Labs, satellite image, SE. Asia
6 November 2013 08:30 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea raises the issue of the importance, or otherwise, of landslide triggers in rock slopes
8 March 2012 09:22 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A more detailed examination of the pre-landslide images from Tumbi Quarry in Papua New Guinea
Tags: featured, Papua New Guinea, quarry, Tumbi
15 February 2012 17:42 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A review of why a quarry can cause a landslide, background context for the Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea
Tags: featured, landslide report, Papua New Guinea
7 February 2012 11:48 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An analysis of a report into the Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea. Many questions remain about this event
Tags: featured, landslide report, Papua New Guinea
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 …
Tags: featured, mine, mining, research, tailings
4 January 2019 10:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
2018 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary landslides. This is my list of the ten most important landslide events of 2018
Tags: featured, global, important, landslide impacts, landslides
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