Fifteen years of the Landslide Blog
16 December 2022 05:00 in blogging by Dave Petley
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.
16 December 2022 05:00 in blogging by Dave Petley
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.
22 February 2022 07:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study has found increased landslide activity in the months after the low-magnitude 2018 Molise earthquake in Italy
18 November 2021 09:21 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
An Indian government official claimed yesterday that the Char Dham highway project in India is not responsible for causing landslides. This is demonstrably incorrect.
2 November 2021 08:07 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
According to a new paper in the journal Landslides (Cheng, Yang and Du 2021), the 220,000 cubic metre 2017 Tonghua landslide in Sichuan Province, China was triggered by nearby blasting during tunnel construction.
3 September 2021 10:29 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Landslides triggered by the 14 August 2021 earthquake in Haiti
2 February 2021 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An air blast strikes trekkers at Kapuche Lake in Nepal following an avalanche, as caught in a video uploaded to Youtube.
6 April 2020 07:00 in Research project by Dave Petley
A recent open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards (Zhang et al 2019) uses Beichuan to examine the perils and pitfalls of rapid off-site resettlement of people affected by disasters
17 September 2019 07:30 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new analysis of the air blast generated by the 2008 Wenjia rock avalanche suggests that it generated the windspeeds of a Force 12 hurricane, and that the impacts extended far beyond the margins of the landslide
28 June 2019 06:31 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a simply wonderful paper just published in Reviews of Geophysics, which is open access, Fan et al. (2019) review the literature on chains of geologic hazards arising from large earthquakes, with a focus on the Ch-Chi and Wenchuan events.
18 February 2019 07:23 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The runout of the one cubic kilometre Daguangbao landslide was controlled by complex processes in a basal layer that may have been just 0.1 mm thick
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