24 July 2013 16:58 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new videos on Youtube show landslides in China. One features the aftermath of a loess landslide, the other a rockslide above a community
Tags: china, featured, landslide video, loess, rockslide
20 September 2011 07:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Latest information on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy
Tags: Bhutan, china, earthquake, featured, Guatemala, India, landslide report, nepal, tibet, typhoon
1 January 2010 14:55 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Xian Center of Geological Survey is compiling a set of very useful web resources of case studies of large landslides in Central China. This is particularly interesting as many of the slides are loess failures, which are comparatively poorly documented. The home page is here:http://www.xian.cgs.gov.cn/english/achievements/land/ There are two items of particular interest there. The first is a PDF of a presentation on the landslides triggered by the Wenchuan earthquake. …
Tags: china, web sites
13 September 2009 04:33 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Regular readers will know that one of my interests lies in trying to get a better understanding of the loss of life associated with landslides. A key realisation of this work for me has been that earthquake-triggered slides cause a very substantial proportional (probably in fact the majority) of fatalities is mass movement events. Unfortunately our understanding of seismically-driven landslides, and their impacts, remains poor, certainly in comparison with rainfall …
20 April 2009 12:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Updated to include the afternoon sessionsThis week is the annual European Geosciences Union assembly in Vienna. This is the biggest annual landslide meeting – there are >300 landslide related papers this time around – and since I am the scientific secretary for the landslide session I cannot allow the opportunity to comment on what I see to pass. So here are my thoughts on Day 1. My intention is not …
Tags: conference report, EGU, vienna
6 July 2008 07:00 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
As I sit in Terminal 5 at Heathrow, enduring an interminable wait for a flight to Newcastle, I have started to reflect upon the International Symposium on Landslides and Engineered Slopes, and upon the state of landslide science in general. First, the conference conveners should be congratulated for a well-organised meeting. The venue (the Shaanxi Guest House in Xian) was quite good, although I was quite glad that we chose …
Tags: china, conference report, International Symposium on Landslides, xian
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