The 1979 Nice Airport landslide and tsunami
4 February 2022 07:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 16 October 1979 a landslide in fill at Nice airport triggered a massive submarine landslide and tsunami, which killed at least 8 people.
4 February 2022 07:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 16 October 1979 a landslide in fill at Nice airport triggered a massive submarine landslide and tsunami, which killed at least 8 people.
12 October 2021 06:36 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large rock slope collapse from Punta dei Ross, Croda Marcora in the Italian Dolomites
5 July 2021 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Atami mudslides in Japan Over the weekend there was considerable attention paid to the remarkable videos of the mudflows in Atami, Japan. This one in particular gained traction:- . But there are several others, which are helpfully combined into a compilation here: . I particularly draw your attention to the excerpt that begins at 8 minutes 16 seconds into the second video (the same sequence appears in the first …
21 May 2021 10:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Pietrafitta landslide: a new paper published in Landslides (Guerriero et al. 2021) shows that traffic vibration can cause a landslide to move under certain circumstances
12 April 2021 07:56 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
The interesting morphology of the Culluchaca landslide in Peru – is this part of a much larger deep-seated gravitational deformation (DSGD)?
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)
6 October 2020 08:51 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Saint-Martin-Vesubie: Planet Labs images of the aftermath of the extraordinary flooding from Storm Alex in France
5 October 2020 06:54 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper in the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Wang et al. (2020) describe the impact of a tunnel on the ancient Jimie landslide in China
25 June 2020 07:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the last few days the Old Fort Landslide in Canada has moved over 160 metres, with current movement rates of about 2 metres per hour
23 March 2020 07:09 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 20 March 2020 a remarkable Youtube video recorded a major rockfall / boulder roll in the Alborz mountains of Iran as it tore through a village, destroying at least four houses.
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