28 January 2022 08:30 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 25 January 2022 a large cut slope failure occurred on the banks of a drainage channel in Seri Kembangan, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia
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19 July 2021 07:54 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last 24 hours at least 29 people have been killed by landslides triggered by intense monsoon rainfall in Mumbai, India
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3 June 2021 10:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Not all slope failures are large: examples of small but disruptive landslides in Sheffield
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1 June 2021 06:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Corinth Canal: a video of the rockfall that has left it closed since January According to Wikipedia, the Conrinth Canal, “connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland“. Built in 1893, it was for a while an important trading route within Greece. However, it is a very narrow cut through bedrock – it is 6.4 km long …
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26 October 2020 08:37 in Photo gallery by Dave Petley
Recent examples, from India and Vietnam, of the ways in which landslides can affect roads, causing extensive disruption
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16 April 2019 06:10 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have successfully acquired a high resolution SkySat image of the Hindalco Tailings failure in Muri, India, which occurred last week
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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.
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10 May 2018 06:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 6th May a major rainfall triggered landslide struck Bucyurabuhoro, in Karongi District in western Rwanda, killing 18 people and injuring a further 12.
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5 November 2017 10:12 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Overnight, heavy rainfall has triggered a major rotational landslide at a newly-constructed engineered slope in George Town, Penang in Malaysia
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23 June 2017 06:08 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The Kaikoura earthquake landslides: an excellent video about the enormous mitigation works on State Highway 1 in New Zealand
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