11 March 2019 07:27 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has been posted onto Youtube showing a reasonably small but undeniably spectacular rockslide in Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas
Tags: engineering, featured, India, road, rockslide, South Asia
22 February 2019 07:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 17 February 2019 a >1 million cubic metre rockslide occurred at Longjin village in Guizhou Province. The failure was predicted using a monitoring system
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, monitoring, prediction
7 November 2018 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Recent research shows that the problematic Mannen rockslide in Norway has shown two previous phases of extensive activity. Guest post by Paula Hilger of NGU
Tags: dating, Europe, featured, Holocene, Norway, research, rockslide
30 October 2018 14:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A kind reader has successfully found the valley-blocking 11th October 2018 Jomda County rockslide in Tibet, allowing us to view it using Planet Labs images
Tags: East Asia, featured, Planet Labs, rockslide, satellite, tibet
23 April 2018 06:41 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In September 2016 the Sucun rockslide killed 27 people in Zhejiang Province, China. This landslide has now been analysed in a paper published in Landslides by Ouyang et al (2018)
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, research, review, rockslide, typhoon
18 April 2018 07:11 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Monday a 20,000 cubic metre rockslide at Castell de Mur in Catalonia, Spain killed two people. The rockslide occurred at the site of a village destroyed by landslides 70 years ago
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, rockslide, Spain
12 April 2018 22:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In October 2017 a large rockslide occurred at the Candelaria mine in Chile, reducing production by about 20%. Planet Labs imagery captures the aftermath of this large wedge failure
Tags: Chile, East Asia, featured, japan, landslide report, mine, mining, South America
29 January 2018 07:57 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The Rattlesnake Hills rockslide in Washington State continues to creep at an approximately constant rate. The key challenge now is to determine whether the slide can transition into a rapid failure eventThe Rattlesnake Hills rockslide in Washington State continues to creep at an approximately constant rate. The key challenge now is to determine whether the slide can transition into a rapid failure event
Tags: creep, creeping landslide, featured, landslide monitoring, landslide movement, landslide report, monitoring
1 September 2017 06:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Extraordinary high resolution video footage has been posted on Liveleak showing the initiation of the Zhangjiawan rockslide in China on Monday
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide video, rockslide, toplle
31 July 2017 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Saldim Peak in Nepal: new analyses suggest that the 20th April 2017 glacial flood that was actually caused by a giant rockslide
Tags: debris flow, featured, GLOF, Himalayas, landslide report, nepal, rockslope failure
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