12 June 2023 07:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 11 June 2023 a large rock avalanche occurred on the southern flank of Flüchthorn in the Austrian Alps. The runout distance was about 2 km.
Tags: Alps, Austria, climate change, Europe, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche
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
23 January 2023 07:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
At Joshmath in India, 863 buildings are now showing signs of distress, of which 181 are considered to be unsafe.
Tags: crisis, featured, India, INSAR, landslide report, remote sensing, South Asia
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
25 January 2021 08:32 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Large glacier-related landslides in high mountain areas are increasing with time, according to a new study (Liu et al. 2021)
Tags: Asia, climate change, featured, glacier, global heating, high mountains
2 January 2021 11:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Mount Silberhorn – a large rockslide has occurred in the Southern Alps of New Zealand, close to Aoraki/Mount Cook, in the last few days
Tags: featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rock avalanche, rockslide
29 December 2020 10:24 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Taku River: another very large landslide in British Columbia, Canada. A Facebook user, Darryl Keith Tait, has posted images and video of the aftermath of a huge rockslope failure.
Tags: British Columbia, Canada, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche
16 December 2020 07:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A massive rockslope failure and 13 km long debris flow near to Bute Inlet in British Columbia, Canada in late November
Tags: Canada, featured, glacier, landslide report, North America, Planet Labs, video
10 December 2020 08:11 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Mindu in Tibet: a new open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences explores the detection of precursors of an imminent landslide using satellite images
Tags: East Asia, featured, monitoring, paper, research, tibet
16 October 2020 07:30 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Harrison Lake: a nice paper in the journal Landslides (Hughes et al 2020) describes newly discovered, large, ancient landslide deposits in Canada. The two largest landslides would have been tsunamigenic.
Tags: Canada, featured, lake, North America, paper, research, tsunami
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