26 December 2018 11:51 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Sentinel-1 imagery suggests that the landslide that triggered the tsunami on Anak Krakatau appears to have been a large-scale flank collapse. Unfortunately it is difficult to ascertain the current situation on the volcano
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, landslide report, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
3 October 2018 07:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
DigitalGlobe has released high resolution imagery of two of the the Palu landslides, triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake last week
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, Palu, SE. Asia, sulawesi
1 October 2018 06:40 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Video has emerged on Youtube apparently showing lateral spreads as they were triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake on Friday
Tags: earthquake, featured, indonesia, lateral spread, SE. Asia, sulawesi
1 August 2017 07:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A 50 cm high tsunami struck the Caribbean coast of Colombia at Santa Marta on 19th July 2017. The most likely cause was a submarine landslide.
27 December 2016 10:02 in landslide report, Research project by Dave Petley
The full set of project reports about landslide hazard and risk management from the EU FP7 Safeland project are now available online once more.
Tags: Europe, featured, hazard, landslide risk, report
20 September 2016 06:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Like a zombie that refuses to die, the Canary Islands megatsunami scare story has once again re-emerged to the normal hysterical headlines
Tags: Canary Islands, Europe, featured, flank collapse, landslide report, tsunami, volcano
13 June 2016 08:51 in Conference by Dave Petley
Details of three quite different forthcoming landslide meetings of interest, two the USA and one in England. In all cases the abstract deadline is imminent.
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2 February 2016 07:50 in Melanie by Dave Petley
The Mentirosa Island landslide complex comprises four tsunamigenic soil-rock slides in Patagonia, Chile, with a combined volume of 8 million cubic metres.
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide images, South America, tsunami, wave
27 January 2016 08:05 in Melanie by Dave Petley
Triggered by the Mw 6.2 Aysén earthquake in Chile on 21 April 2007, the Punta Cola rock avalanche has a volume of 22.4 million cubic metres
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, Melanie, rock avalanche, South America
29 September 2015 06:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday a section of beach dramatically collapsed in Queensland, Australia to form the Inskip Sinkhole. It is now clear that this was actually a submarine landslide.
Tags: australia, featured, landslide report, sinkhole, submarine landslide
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