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
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.
Tags: comference, featured, meetings
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
30 January 2014 18:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Wednesday a highly localised tsunami struck the village of Nord-Statland in Norway, causing enormous damage. The cause was probably a submarine landslide.
Tags: featured, landslide report, Norway, tsunami
17 December 2013 15:31 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A NERC press release today suggests that the tsunami triggered by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake was exacerbated by a 500 cubic kilometre submarine landslide
Tags: earthquake, japan, submarine landslide, Tohoku, tsumani
13 December 2013 02:13 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper should end the scare that a landslide in the Canary Islands could cause a megatsunami that would devastate coast areas in Europe & America
Tags: featured, paper, review, Spain, tsunami
17 January 2012 00:01 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Links to two really interesting landslide posts elsewhere: one is about a slip in Canada and the other a huge submarine slide.
Tags: california, featured, landslide report, submarine landslide
2 October 2009 16:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I am struggling to keep up with the natural disasters at the moment. The main point of this post is to highlight the continued threat of Typhoon Parma to the northern Philippines. The current track forecast has it making landfall in the next day or so in the northern part of Luzon. The forecasts are still that it will stall as it makes its way across that area – this …
Tags: Cambodia, earthquake, India, indonesia, Italy, landslide report, tropical cyclone, typhoon, Vietnam
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