10 December 2009 08:33 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the latest in my occasional series on the depiction of landslides in art. The previous parts of this series are here:Part 1Part 2 Today I turn to a classic painting from the 19th Century, painted by Lord Frederic Leighton, entitled “On the Coast, Isle of Wight”: This oil sketch, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, shows a stretch of the Isle of Wight coastline in southern …
Tags: artwork, isle of wight, painting, UK
7 December 2009 09:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
Tags: artwork, landslide
7 December 2009 09:34 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
Tags: artwork, landslide
29 November 2009 09:14 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I thought that it would be interesting to run a series of occasional posts on landslides in art. The first is, rather predictably, called “Landslide” by Francie Lyshak, the source of which is here: Landslide, by Francie Lyshak, Oil on linen, 50 x 37, 1990 The accompanying text, by Joe Vojkto, says: “The cosmic site-gag of Francie Lyshak’s painting, Landslide, hits like a ton of bricks and opens up old …
7 June 2023 06:33 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Landslides from the 5 September 2022 Mw=6.7 Luding Earthquake in Sichuan, China triggered many landslides around the town of Moxi.
Tags: china, coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, planet, satellite image, sichuan
21 April 2023 06:29 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.
Tags: china, coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, featured, research, review of a paper, Wenchuan
13 February 2023 06:33 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Information about, and images of, landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes is starting to emerge on social media
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, Syria, Turkey
7 February 2023 07:13 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
First images of landslides from the 6 February 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, Europe, featured, highway, lateral spread, Middle East, road, Syria, Turkey
6 February 2023 07:22 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 6 February 2023 Mw=7.8 earthquake near Nurdağı in Gaziantep, Turkey is likely to have triggered substantial numbers of landslides
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, seismic, Turkey
20 October 2022 06:45 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 14 August 2021 M=7.2 earthquake in Haiti triggered many landslides. A recent paper (Havenith et al. 2022) suggests that this might in part have been because the slopes were preconditioned (weakened) by earlier earthquakes and storms.
Tags: Caribbean, coseismic landslide, earthquake-induced landslide, featured, Haiti, paper, research, seismic landslide
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