11 September 2015 05:30 in Coast, landslide video by Dave Petley
In Dorset, Southern England a dramatic rock topple on the progressive landslide at Weare Cliffs has been captured on video by a local fisherman
Tags: coast, Dorset, landslide video, progressive failure, rockfall, topple, UK
23 August 2015 05:30 in humour by Dave Petley
Wile E. Coyote often tried to catch the Road Runner using rockfalls. Unfortunately he failed to understand how hard it is to predict landslide behaviour, especially in cartoon land.
Tags: cartoon, featured, rockfall, topple
29 July 2015 07:32 in landslide video by Dave Petley
In the last 24 hours two tremendous new landslide videos have appeared online, one from Japan and one from Taiwan
Tags: East Asia, featured, japan, landslide video, taiwan
10 March 2015 07:00 in Review of a paper, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In a newly published paper, Lisa Borgatti and colleagues describe the February 2014 landslide that affected the historical town of San Leo in northern Italy, providing both a description of the event and a historical context. Landslides will be a major threat to this historical site in the coming decades
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, landslide report, paper, research, rockfall, topple
1 December 2014 23:50 in Art by Dave Petley
The 1970 movie The Railway Children featured a translational landslide that blocked a railway track. Fortunately three children were on hand to save the day
Tags: cut slope failure, featured, landslide, movie, railway, train, translational landslide
29 October 2014 06:38 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In Mount Mannen in western Norway, an apparently imminent large rockslide is attracting great media interest, including a live webcam
Tags: featured, landslide event, Norway, rockslide, webcam
7 January 2014 07:40 in landslide images by Dave Petley
A photographer, Dan Crouch, caught two dramatic photographs of the Hastings cliff collapse a few days ago
4 January 2014 09:24 in landslide video by Dave Petley
New videos have appeared on Youtube over the last 24 hours of a large, dramatic rock cliff collapse at Rock-A-Nore near Hastings in East Sussex, England
Tags: coastal cliff, rockfall, UK, video
28 October 2013 07:58 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video has appeared on Youtube showing a building being progressively pushed over and destroyed by a landslide in Thailand
Tags: creeping landslide, featured, landslide video, Thailand
27 May 2013 00:33 in Art by Dave Petley
The latest edition of the Landslides in Art series, featuring the work of Peruvian-born artist Elena Damiani
Tags: art, artwork, featured, landslides in art
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