A remarkable number of landslides in California
16 January 2023 07:36 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Since the start of 2023, California has been hit by a succession of major rainstorms. To date at least 402 landslides have been triggered.
16 January 2023 07:36 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Since the start of 2023, California has been hit by a succession of major rainstorms. To date at least 402 landslides have been triggered.
11 April 2022 06:55 in Coast by Dave Petley
Bedruthan Steps in Cornwall, England: another “face” in a landslide scar
25 February 2021 08:37 in Conference by Dave Petley
Landslides and sustainable development: managing the cost of landslides in less developed countries. My keynote lecture from the XIII International Symposium on Landslides
10 February 2021 08:39 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Hydroelectric power, dams and the growing list of landslide accidents in the Himalayas (and in other high mountain areas)
22 June 2020 05:22 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Old Fort landslide in British Colombia has reactivated as a result of heavy rainfall. About 100 m of new movement has been recorded so far.
27 May 2020 06:04 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have now captured high resolution imagery of the aftermath of the failure of Sandford dam in Michigan last week
14 May 2020 06:34 in Database by Dave Petley
I have made the 2019 fatal landslide dataset available as a Google Sheet for the community to use, and welcome any corrections or additions
13 May 2020 05:42 in Database by Dave Petley
I have now been able to generate the global map of 2019 fatal landslides. This shows an unusual cluster of landslides in East Africa.
1 May 2020 06:37 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large (c.60,000 cubic metre) and spectacular garbage landslide occurred at the Dona Juana landfill site in Bogota, Colombia on 28 April 2020.
10 February 2020 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The exceptional mobility of tailings dam failures I’m continuing to write my paper for the keynote at the 13th International Symposium on Landslides in Colombia this year (the paper is due this month, so the pressure is on). As I noted in a post last week, I’ve been looking at the impact of landslides in less developed countries; one key component of this is the impact of failures associated with …
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