28 July 2020 07:16 in Database by Dave Petley
In the summer of 2019 the National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC), launched a new disaster management portal (bipad.gov.np) to provide high quality spatial data. This allows landslide accidents in Nepal to be mapped in near real time.
Tags: data, database, mapping landslides, nepal, South Asia
4 June 2020 05:38 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The remarkable video of a landslide at Alta in Norway yesterday is probably the finest recording of a quick clay landslide to date.
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide video, Norway, quick clay, quick clay landslide
25 March 2020 08:21 in Database by Dave Petley
In 2019 I recorded a total 463 non-seismic fatal landslides, causing 3270 deaths, plus a further 27 fatal landslides triggered by earthquakes, making 2019 the third worst on record.
Tags: 2019, database, fatal landslides, featured
3 February 2020 07:19 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Recent Planet Labs images capture the ongoing deformation of the rock wall above the Sul Superior Dam at the Gongo Soco mine in Brazil
Tags: featured, mine, mining, monitoring, Planet Labs, satellite
27 September 2019 06:26 in Mining by Dave Petley
Yet another mining-induced landslide occurred yesterday, in the Tibesti region of Chad in Africa, killing about 30 people.
Tags: Africa, Chad, featured, mine, mining
5 February 2019 07:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Another massive mining-induced landslide occurred on 23rd January, this time at the Cobre Las Cruces mine in Spain . The volume is c.15 million cubic metres.
1 February 2019 19:41 in landslide video, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
My initial thoughts on the Brumadinho tailings dam collapse video, which has emerged today. The video shows a catastrophic rotational landslide and flow
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, tailings, video
1 February 2019 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The human and environmental costs of the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil are becoming increasingly clear, whilst speculation continues as to the causes of the collapse of the tailings dam
Tags: brazil, Brumadinho, features, mine, mining, planet, South America, tailings
27 December 2018 10:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The town of Tlalpujahua in Mexico, now renowned for the manufacture of Christmas ornaments, was devastated by a catastrophic tailings landslide in 1937
8 February 2016 08:12 in mitigation by Dave Petley
The recent Taiwan earthquake and the Samarco tailings dam failure both illustrate the critical role of individual responsibility in disaster risk reduction
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, featured, responsibility, taiwan
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