28 October 2013 07:58 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video has appeared on Youtube showing a building being progressively pushed over and destroyed by a landslide in Thailand
Tags: creeping landslide, featured, landslide video, Thailand
27 May 2013 00:33 in Art by Dave Petley
The latest edition of the Landslides in Art series, featuring the work of Peruvian-born artist Elena Damiani
Tags: art, artwork, featured, landslides in art
23 March 2013 00:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A post providing a spectaular example of columnar jointing from Iceland, examining the role that joints play in rockfalls
Tags: gorge, Iceland, joints, rockfall
3 October 2011 12:27 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
Initial reports and a video of the aftermath of a landslide in Armenia yesterday that may have killed seven or more people.
Tags: Armenia, Georgia, landslide report
17 June 2011 07:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Dave explores the mode of failure of a lemon meringue, finding that the mechanisms in opertaion are rather more complex than it first appears
Tags: cake, featured, topple
13 December 2009 13:08 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Back in August I posted a couple of times on a fatal landslide in at Lifan (sometimes written Loufan) in Sigou County in Shanxi Province in China (the posts are here and here), which appeared to be a mining related flowslide that killed 45 people. Yesterday the People’s Daily website ran a story explaining the results of the enquiry into the landslide: “Illegal production and slack safety oversight were main …
Tags: china, flowslide, investigation, mining
14 April 2009 08:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I thought that it was time to provide a round-up of some landslide events from around the world: 1. A narrow escape in AustraliaThanks to Remke van Dam for bringing this one to my attention. This Australian family had a pretty lucky escape last week when a pair of large rocks struck their car (image from here): 2. A road-blocking rockfall in AlaskaThanks to John Fritz for this one. In …
Tags: Alaska, australia, Idaho, rockfall, Round-up, tree, USA
25 March 2009 10:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the first of my series of photographic reviews of the earthquake affected area in Sichuan Province. The other sets are as follows:Part 1 (this part): Beichuan town Part 2: The Tangjiashan landslide Part 3: Hanwang town Part 4: The Mianyuanhe area Part 5: The Xingyiu area Thanks to my friends in the State Key Laboratory for Geohazards at the Chengdu University of Technology I have spent the last …
Tags: Beichuan, china, earthquake, rock slide, rock slope, shanty town, sichuan, Tangjiashan
9 December 2008 08:32 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the last few days there have been two landslides that have led to searches in the hope of finding buried victims. The higher profile slide was this one that occurred in the Bukit Antarabangsa suburb of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on Saturday (pictures from The Star): This landslide, which has dominated the news in Malaysia over the last few days, killed four people and injured a further 15. One person …
Tags: burial, injured, killed, recovery, rescue, response
22 September 2008 06:30 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Xinhua is today reporting that: “The State Council, China’s Cabinet, has sent a team to investigate the landslide that buried dozens of people in the northern Shanxi Province, but was initially played down by local authorities. The landslide toppled a waste dump of a local iron mine and buried Sigou Village in Loufan County in the suburbs of the provincial capital Taiyuan on Aug. 1.” The landslide was reported to …
Tags: 2008, china, flowslide, landslide report, mining
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