16 May 2017 06:39 in landslide report, Research project by Dave Petley
The Pas de l’Ours landslide: a very large and potentially-problematic actively-moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of France
Tags: Europe, featured, France, INSAR, landslide report, monitoring, rockslide
15 May 2017 06:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
This weekend a classic and reasonably large planar rockslide blocked Highway 70 at Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County, Tennessee
Tags: featured, road, rockslide, Tennessee, USA
10 May 2017 06:48 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On Monday a significant rockslide on the flanks of Geiranger Fjord in Norway was captured on a video now posted to Youtube
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide video, Norway
28 March 2017 06:51 in Conference by Dave Petley
In August 2017 the International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley will once again be held in Kyrgyzstan
Tags: Central Asia, course, featured, Kyrgyzstan, rock avalanche, summer school, training
5 October 2016 06:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A major post-glacial rockslide is developing on the flanks of the Moosfluh above the Aletsch Glacier in Canton du Valais in Swizerland
Tags: Alps, Europe, featured, landslide report, progressive failure, rockslide, Switzerland
3 October 2016 07:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Thanks to various friends the location of the very dangerous and large Rizhao rockslide in Shandong, China last week is now clear
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, rockslide, wedge
28 September 2016 06:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday a large rockslide occurred at a brand new public park in Rizhao in Shandong, eastern China. The event appears to have been a lucky escape.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, risk, rockslide
28 April 2016 07:21 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a wonderful new paper in the journal Landslides, Simon Loew and collagues describe the use of monitoring data to forecast the failure of the 2012 Preonzo rockslide in Switzerland
Tags: Europe, featured, monitoring, review of a paper, rockslide, Switzerland, video
17 March 2016 08:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Monday night the Val Strem rockslide thundered off the Cuolm is da Vinci in Switzerland. This dramatic rockslide travelled about 1 km down the valley
Tags: Alps, Europe, featured, rockslide, runout, Switzerland
10 February 2016 06:21 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Early on Monday morning six people were killed in a rockslide at Fude village in southern China.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, rockslide
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