24 February 2016 07:53 in landslide report by Dave Petley
News reports in Nepal today suggest that a large, dry landslide occurred yesterday in the Annapurna region of Nepal. Was this a rock avalanche?
Tags: featured, landslide report, nepal, rock avalanche, South Asia
27 January 2016 08:05 in Melanie by Dave Petley
Triggered by the Mw 6.2 Aysén earthquake in Chile on 21 April 2007, the Punta Cola rock avalanche has a volume of 22.4 million cubic metres
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, Melanie, rock avalanche, South America
21 January 2016 09:03 in Photo gallery by Dave Petley
The Meson Alto rock avalanche is a 4.5 cubic kilometre landslide located in a tributary of the Maipo Valley high in the Andes of Chile.
Tags: ancient landslide, Chile, feaured, landslide image, rock avalanche, South America
17 December 2015 21:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Drew Brayshaw has tweeted images of a dramatic large rock avalanche that occurred on the flanks of Mount James Turner yesterday
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide report, North America, rock avalanche
20 October 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Further analysis of the Mount Steele rock avalanche in the Yukon of Canada shows that the landslide had a volume of about 20 million cubic metres
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, seismic
19 October 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
I can reveal here for the first time that last week a giant rock avalanche was detected by Colin Stark and Goram Ekstrom on the flanks of Mount Steele in the Yukon, Canada
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, satellite, seismic
22 September 2015 06:05 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In September 1991 the Touzhai rock avalanche in China killed over 200 people. In a paper just published, Xing et al. (2015) provide a detailed description and the outcomes of modeling of the runout of the landslide
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15 July 2015 07:19 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In June 1692 the Port Royal earthquake triggered the Judgement Cliff Rock Avalanche in Jamaica, killing at least 19 people
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17 May 2015 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Chinese news agencies are reporting a huge ice – rock avalanche in Akto County, Xinjiang, China. The reported volume is half a cubic kilometre!
Tags: avalanche, china, featured, glacier, ice - rock avalanche
5 May 2015 07:30 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report by Dave Petley
Satellite imagery and on site reports suggest that the Langtang ice and rock avalanche occurred when a block freefell about 700 m before fragmenting to generate a blast of ice, rock and air.
Tags: avalanche, featured, nepal, rock avalanche, South Asia
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