18 November 2019 07:31 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
On the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, a new study suggests that tsunamigenic submarine landslides may be more common than we thought
Tags: Canada, featured, North America, submarine landslide, tsunami
12 November 2019 07:23 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Barangay Bato landslide cluster from the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines, captured by Planet Labs satellites
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, Planet Labs, SE. Asia
11 November 2019 07:23 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
At least two distinct clusters of landslides were triggered by the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines. This post provides Planet Labs images of the cluster at Baragay Buhay.
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, Planet Labs, satellite image, SE. Asia
4 November 2019 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A sequence of earthquakes in Cotabato in the Philippines in late October 2019 has triggered a number of large landslides, causing at least seven fatalities
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, SE. Asia
22 October 2019 06:08 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
On 19 October 2019 a M=5.7 earthquake struck the island of Kadavu in Fiji, triggering multiple rockslides that are visible on Planet Labs imagery captured a day later.
Tags: eathquake, featured, Fiji, landslide video, Oceania, Planet Labs
25 September 2019 06:21 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 24th September 2019 M=5.6 Mirpur earthquake in NW Pakistan appears to have generated some large lateral spreads along the banks of the Jhelum River.
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, liqufaction, pakistan, South Asia
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
29 April 2019 05:56 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 22 April 2019 M=6.1 earthquake at Gutad in Luzon, Philippines triggered multiple landslides. These are evident in a Planet Labs satellite image.
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, Planet Labs, SE. Asia
2 April 2019 06:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A study has been published of landslides triggered by the 18th November 2017 Ms=6.9 earthquake in the Tsangpo Gorge area of Tibet
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, landslide dam, tibet, valley blocking landslide
15 March 2019 07:25 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study (Serey et al. 2019) of the Mw=8.8 2010 Chile megathrust earthquake indicates that it triggered a surprisingly low number of landslides.
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, megathrust, South America
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