2 October 2019 07:15 in Research project by Dave Petley
A splendid new paper (Walter et al 2019) provides detailed analysis of the precursory behaviour leading up to the Anak Krakatau flank collapse in December 2018
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, SE. Asia, volcano
24 September 2019 06:43 in Review of a paper, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A paper (Williams et al. 2019) published in the journal Geology provides an analysis of the deadly 2018 Anak Krakatau flank collapse. Interestingly, the landslide was surprisingly small to have generated such a large tsunami.
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
18 June 2019 05:59 in Database by Dave Petley
We have now posted the full Global Fatal Landslide Database online. This new version adds a further year of data, covering 2004 to 2017 inclusive.
Tags: database, datal, dataset, fatality, featured
10 April 2019 02:50 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
GEER has published a report on the Palu-Donggala landslides, triggered by the 28 September 2018 Mw=7.5 Palu earthquake in Indonesia
Tags: earthquake, featured, flowslide, indonesia, landslide report, SE. Asia
19 February 2019 08:43 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
A paper has recently been posted to EarthArXiv providing an analysis of the flank failure of Anak Krakatau on 22 Dec 2018, which generated a tsunami that killed 431 people.
Tags: Anak Krakatau, featured, flank collapse, indonesia, SE. Asia, volcano
4 January 2019 10:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
2018 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary landslides. This is my list of the ten most important landslide events of 2018
Tags: featured, global, important, landslide impacts, landslides
3 January 2019 08:49 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Anak Krakatau: @planetlabs have captured excellent imagery, including a high resolution SkySat view, of the aftermath of the landslide
Tags: featured, indonesia, Krakatau, Planet Labs, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
28 December 2018 11:14 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Chaos Jumbles: a fine example of a large volcanic landslide in California, caused by three successive dome collapse events
Tags: california, featured, North America, rock avalanche, USA, volcanic landslide, volcano
26 December 2018 11:51 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Sentinel-1 imagery suggests that the landslide that triggered the tsunami on Anak Krakatau appears to have been a large-scale flank collapse. Unfortunately it is difficult to ascertain the current situation on the volcano
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, landslide report, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
19 October 2018 08:24 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new video has appeared on Youtube showing the multiple landslide tsunamis generated by the Sulawesi earthquake in Indonesia.
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, landslide report, Palu, SE. Asia, sulawesi, tsunami
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