28 September 2018 08:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Reports suggest that there has been yet another mining landslide in Hpakant, Myanmar. In the last 4 years over 800 people have died in mining landslides there
Tags: Burma, featured, Jade, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
28 May 2018 05:37 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Saturday another landslide happened at the Ituango dam site. This was a smaller failure above a slope that has been cut and mitigated. 1500 workers were evacuated from the site, but no-one was injured. The integrity of the dam was not apparently threatened by this event.
Tags: Colombia, dam, featured, idroituango, Ituango, reservoir, South America
27 September 2017 07:17 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper in the journal Engineering Geology, Qi et al. (2017) describe spectacular loess landslides from the Heifangtai terrace in China
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, flowslide, loess, research, review
6 March 2017 07:51 in landslide report by Dave Petley
At Righa in Baglung District in Nepal, a valley-blocking landslide over the weekend was apparently triggered by road construction for a hydropower project
Tags: dam, featured, hydropower, landslide dam, landslide report, nepal, road, South Asia
10 February 2017 08:20 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At the Oroville Dam in Calfornia an extraordinary crisis has developed as the spillway undergoes massive, flood-induced erosion
Tags: california, dam, erosion, featured, flood, North America, USA
30 December 2016 18:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Jharkhand in India and Hpakant in Burma (Myanmar): two mine waste landslides in the last two days that have caused multiple fatalities
Tags: Burma, featured, India, landslide report, mine, mine waste
29 June 2016 07:26 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 23rd June a massive secondary landslide occurred in the Devdoraki Gorge in Georgia, blocking the main road between Georgia and Russia. The landslide is a reactivation of a landslide deposit left in the river after a major landslide sequence in 2014,
Tags: Europe, featured, Georgia, hydroelectric powe, landslide report, Russia
10 May 2016 07:17 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The location of the Chitan hydropower landslide Xinhua now reports that the number of people killed or missing in the Chitan Hydropower landslide on Sunday total 41 people, and that so far 31 bodies have been recovered. A further 13 people were injured, some critically. CCTV has put on Youtube a section of drone footage of the landslide site, showing the ongoing rescue operations: . This view suggests that the …
Tags: china, debris flow, East Asia, featured, landslide report, video
5 October 2015 08:20 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report by Dave Petley
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in 2014.
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, valley blocking landslide, yunnan
7 September 2015 09:19 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A joint rock block is forming close to the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, threatening infrastructure at the foot of the slope. The US Bureau of Reclamation are involved in an extraordinary project to try to stabilise it.
Tags: Arizona, dam, featured, rockfall, USA
Recent Comments