21 July 2021 14:18 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The extraordinary, almost unbelievable, rainfall in Henan Province, China yesterday, in which over 200 mm fell in a one hour period.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, flood, rainfall, record
6 July 2021 07:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
News reports and archive Google Earth imagery indicate that the Atami landslide might have occurred on manmade slope
Tags: East Asia, featured, fill slope, Google Earth, japan
9 March 2021 08:38 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Ebisu Circuit: an intriguing, high mobility landslide in volcanic materials caused by the 2021 Fukushima Earthquake in Japan
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, tephra, volcanic
3 January 2021 10:38 in Art by Dave Petley
Landslides in Art Part 34: Landslide (Bergsturz) from Intermezzi, Opus IV an etching by Max Klinger produced in 1881
Tags: art, etching, featured, painting
13 October 2020 07:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An interesting short article points out that mycorrhizal fungi may play a key in reducing the susceptibility to landslides
Tags: deforestation, featured, forest, plants, trees
29 September 2020 07:29 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new open access article in the journal Earth, Plants and Space (Enomoto et al. 2020) experimentally examines the strange and controversial phenomenon of landslide light.
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, experiment, featured, japan, research
7 September 2020 06:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Saturday Brent Ward tweeted a fantastic set of aerial images of the Koidern landslide, in the Yukon of Canada.
Tags: Canada, landslide dam, landslide report, North America, rock avalanche
24 July 2020 07:26 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The first few weeks of the SW monsoon in Nepal has seen large numbers of landslides. By 20 July the number of fatal landslides had already exceeded the average annual total for the last 15 years.
Tags: database, fatal landslide, featured, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
14 July 2020 06:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last few days intense monsoon rainfall in Nepal has triggered a wave of landslides that have caused extensive loss of life and damage.
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
7 July 2020 06:42 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On 2 July 2020 a large and interesting mudflow occurred at Günebakan in the Erzincan area of eastern Turkey. The dynamics were captured on video.
Tags: featured, landslide video, mudflow, Turkey, western Asia
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