5 November 2017 10:12 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Overnight, heavy rainfall has triggered a major rotational landslide at a newly-constructed engineered slope in George Town, Penang in Malaysia
Tags: construction, featured, landslide report, malaysia, retaining wall, SE. Asia
24 October 2017 07:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A drone image of the site of the Tanjung Bungah landslide taken in June 2017 suggests that it was a very challenging site for development
Tags: construction, cutslope, featured, landslide report, malaysia, SE. Asia
4 May 2017 06:44 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Community slope SAFE is a new, low cost landslide warning system designed to protect vulnerable communities in less affluent countries.
Tags: enterprise, featured, landslide warning
4 November 2015 13:32 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper, we examine the distribution of landslides from two earthquakes in New Zealand to see if hillslope preconditioning – the idea that the legacy of one trigger event can influence slope behaviour ins subsequent event – occurred. The results suggest that this might have been a factor in the area affected by both earthquakes,
Tags: earthquake, featured, New Zealand, paper, review
9 July 2015 07:03 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Straits Times in Singapore has published a detailed account of the Mount Kinabalu earthquake and rockfalls from the perspective of the school party that was struck by the debris on the mountain slopes.
Tags: earthquake, featured, landslide report, malaysia, rockfall, SE. Asia
8 June 2015 07:28 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Mount Kinabalu rockfall on Friday, induced by a M=6.0 earthquake, is now known to have killed 19 people, including school children from Singapore
Tags: earthquake, fatal landslide, featured, malaysia, rockfall, SE. Asia
28 March 2014 10:16 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Seismic data indicates that the Oso (Steelhead) landslide was a two phase movement event. Sadly attention is now focused on the recovery of the remains of the victims rather than on a rescue operation
Tags: featured, landslide report, mudflow, mudslide, Oso, rotational landslide, seismic, USA, washington
13 December 2013 02:13 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper should end the scare that a landslide in the Canary Islands could cause a megatsunami that would devastate coast areas in Europe & America
Tags: featured, paper, review, Spain, tsunami
4 January 2013 10:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A round-up of interesting landslide stories in the last week, including the UK, New Zealand, Brazil and Malaysia
Tags: brazil, featured, malaysia, New Zealand, UK
16 August 2012 00:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
Tags: database, featured, global, landslide report, paper, research
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