22 August 2018 06:11 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have collected high resolution satellite imagery showing the track and impact of the debris flow that struck the village of Pashgor in Afghanistan in July 2018
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Asia, featured, glacial, glacier, Planet Labs, satellite
19 July 2018 06:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Various reports suggest that there was a major glacial debris flow in the Ishkoman Valley in the Gilgit region of northern Pakistan on Tuesday. This appears to have left the river blocked and a lake has developed
Tags: Attabad, featured, Gilgit, glacial, glacier, pakistan, South Asia
15 July 2018 09:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 12th July 2018 a massive debris flow struck the village of Pashgor in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, killing at least ten people. Planet Labs imagery shows that this was triggered by the collapse of an ephemeral lake about 15 km upstream
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Asia, debris flow, featured, GLOF, landslide report, Planet Labs, satellite
22 June 2018 07:07 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A remarkable video has been posted to Youtube showing a debris flow at Nubra in Ladakh, northern India. The debris flow might have been associated with a glacier event such as a GLOF
Tags: debris flow, desert, featured, India, South Asia
20 February 2018 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Parts of the track Puerto Venus debris flows in Colombia last week have been captured on satellite imagery by Planet Labs
Tags: Colombia, debris flow, featured, planet, Planet Labs, S. America, satellite image, South America
19 February 2018 07:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The village of Puerto Venus in Antiquio, Colombia was struck by a massive debris flow last week. Early indications are that this may have been the result of the breach of a valley-blocking landslide upstream at El PiƱal
Tags: Colombia, debris flow, featured, landslide report, South America
15 February 2018 08:56 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A paper recently published in Engineering Geology (Fan et al. 2018) provides fascinating insights into the evolution of post-seismic debris flows, based on a study in the Wenchuan earthquake area of China
Tags: china, debris flow, earthquake, East Asia, featured, post-seismic, Wenchuan
16 January 2018 08:11 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Last week significant debris flows struck the Montecito area of California, causing at least 20 fatalities. Planet Labs have now captured medium and high resolution images of the area affected.
Tags: california, debris flow, featured, fire, landslide report, planet, USA, wildfire
10 November 2017 08:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An archive of before and after RapidEye satellite images is now available, which clearly show the cause of the Mocao debris flow disaster in April 2017
5 June 2017 06:04 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Pierre Zufferey has posted to Youtube an even better video of the terrifying Illgraben debris flow of 29th May 2017, which I featured last week
Tags: Africa, debris flow, Europe, featured, Kenya, landslide video, Switzerland
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