17 March 2023 07:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 8 March 2023 rockslide and train derailment in Sandstone, West Virigina, USA, which caused four locomotives and nine coal trucks to leave the tracks.
Tags: derailment, featured, landslide report, North America, rockslide, train, USA
21 February 2023 07:36 in landslide report, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Manutuke: a large landslide triggered by Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand , which narrowly missed a house in the Gisborne area
Tags: Cyclone gabrielle, featured, landslide report, New Zealand, planet, satellite image, tropical cyclone
13 February 2023 06:33 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Information about, and images of, landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes is starting to emerge on social media
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, Syria, Turkey
6 February 2023 07:22 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 6 February 2023 Mw=7.8 earthquake near Nurdağı in Gaziantep, Turkey is likely to have triggered substantial numbers of landslides
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, seismic, Turkey
31 October 2022 07:03 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
At least 20 people were killed by a mudslide at Kusiong village in the Philippines on Thursday, triggered by Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae. The local people had been drilled to prepare for a storm surge, so sheltered upslope, where they were killed by a mudslide.
Tags: featured, landslide report, philippine, SE. Asia, tropical storm
12 October 2022 08:28 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Las Tejerías: Planet Labs images have captured the aftermath of the landslide, which came down the channel from the north.
Tags: featured, landslide report, mudflow, Planet Labs, satellite image, South America, Venezuela
5 October 2022 06:33 in Research project by Dave Petley
The Cochin slide: a new paper published in the journal Landslide describes a 138 km long submarine landslide southwest of India
Tags: bathymetry, featured, India, South Asia, submarine landslide
4 October 2022 06:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Beshbadam landslide is a 4.4 km long failure in loess, triggered by a rain on snow event in Kyrgyzstan in the Spring of 1969.
Tags: Central Asia, featured, Kyrgyzstan, loess
30 September 2022 07:00 in Database by Dave Petley
I have been pondering the number of large landslide disasters that occurred in the 1960s. This is an initial list that includes the landslide impacts of two of the greatest earthquakes in history and a series of landslides caused by dams and mining.
Tags: disaster, earthquake, featured, global database, landslide disasters, mining
4 July 2022 06:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 30 June 2022 a very large landslide occurred at Tupul in Noney district of Manipur in Northern India, killing at least 42 people.
Tags: cut slope, featured.landslide report, India, railway, South Asia
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