28 May 2020 06:19 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recent paper (Latrubesse et al. 2020) suggests that the catastrophic July 2018 Xe Nammoy hydropower complex dam failure in Laos might have been caused by piping and slope failure of the dam, a mechanism that is similar to the #Edenville dam failure.
Tags: dam, dam failure, featured, Laos, SE. Asia
22 May 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As improved images and information become available, it is becoming possible to gain a better understanding of the cause of the Edenville Dam breach
Tags: breach, dam, featured, flood, Michigan, North Aerica, Planet Labs, USA
30 March 2020 06:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 27 March 2020 a large and unusual failure in a sand heap at the Guizhou Commercial Concrete Co in Guiyang in Guizhou province, China killed 7 people
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, heap, landslide report, sand
24 March 2020 08:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday 21 March 2020 a major landslide occurred at Tendepo in Tambul-Nebilyer district in Papua New Guinea, resulting in 12 deaths
Tags: featured, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, SE. Asia
6 March 2020 11:28 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday, a TGV (high speed train) travelling at 270 kmh struck a landslide between Strasburg and Vendenheim in the Bas-Rhin area of France, causing a serious derailment that injured 22 people.
Tags: Europe, featured, France, landslide report, railway, rotational landslide, train
18 February 2020 06:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Images of the Tylorstown landslide show that it was a rotational landslide in coal waste that transitioned into a flowslide.
Tags: coal, Europe, featured, flowslide, landslide report, mine, mining, UK, Wales
21 January 2020 07:48 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 23 July 2019 a large landslide occurred at Pingdi village in Shuicheng County, in Guizhou Province, China. A first scientific account of this landslide (Li et al. 2020) has been published in the journal Landslides
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, paper
7 January 2020 08:21 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 6 January 2020 a large coastal landslide occurred at Trimingham in north Norfolk, eastern England. This is an area of complex glaciotectonic deposits that control the style of landsliding.
Tags: coast, featured, glacial, landslide report, Norfolk, UK
15 October 2019 05:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The 2020 International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan) (ICL Kokomeren Summer School)
Tags: course, featured, Kyrgyzstan, summer school, training, West Asia
24 September 2019 06:43 in Review of a paper, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A paper (Williams et al. 2019) published in the journal Geology provides an analysis of the deadly 2018 Anak Krakatau flank collapse. Interestingly, the landslide was surprisingly small to have generated such a large tsunami.
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
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