22 August 2019 02:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Various news agencies in China are reporting multiple landslides triggered by extreme rainfall in the Wenchuan area, and adjacent regions, of China. Reports suggest 44 people have been killed or are missing.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, Wenchuan
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.
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, paper, research, review, taiwan
8 November 2017 07:47 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper (Stolle et al. 2017) in Quaternary Science Reviews suggests that 3 medieval earthquakes may have induced catastrophic landsliding in Nepal
Tags: debris flow, earthquake, featured, nepal, South Asia
18 September 2017 21:14 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Kaikoura Earthquake left a landscape with many partially failed slopes. Forecasting the behaviour of these slopes is a major challenge
Tags: earthquake, featured, Kaikoura, landslide images, New Zealand
8 August 2017 22:02 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Early indications suggest that M=7.0 Jiuzhaigou County earthquake in Sichuan Province yesterday should have generated significant landslide activity
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, sichuan
25 April 2017 06:39 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
On the second anniversary of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, a recent paper compares the landslide distributions for the Nepal and China earthquakes. The results have profound implications for the understanding of potential landslide distributions from future earthquakes.
Tags: china, erathquake, featured, gorkha, nepal, Wenchuan
17 November 2016 08:48 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A very large valley blocking landslide has occurred on the Hapuku River in New Zealand following the Kaikoura earthquake, creating a 150 m high dam
Tags: earthquake, featured, Kaikoura, landslide dam, New Zealand, valley blocking landslide
29 April 2015 06:43 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A team from the EWF project has compiled a set of landslide guidelines to guide recovery and relief operations in Nepal
Tags: earthquake, featured, guidelines, nepal, South Asia
18 April 2013 15:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
We have used a new model developed at Durham to generate an initial map of the likely landslides triggered by the Iran earthquake this week
Tags: earthquake, featured, Iran, model, pakistan, seismic
15 May 2011 23:03 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A small number of photos of the state of the earthquake affected areas in Sichuan Province, China.
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