8 October 2018 06:49 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Palu landslides, triggered by the Sulawesi earthquake, may have been the worst mass movement event in terms of loss of life for five years
Tags: earthquake, featured, indonesia, Palu, SE. Asia
3 October 2018 07:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
DigitalGlobe has released high resolution imagery of two of the the Palu landslides, triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake last week
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, Palu, SE. Asia, sulawesi
1 October 2018 06:40 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Video has emerged on Youtube apparently showing lateral spreads as they were triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake on Friday
Tags: earthquake, featured, indonesia, lateral spread, SE. Asia, sulawesi
24 August 2018 06:17 in Database, landslide costs, Melanie by Dave Petley
Melanie Froude and I have just published in NHESS a new analysis of global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016 inclusive. It shows that losses from landslides caused by humans are increasing with time
Tags: costs, database, fatalities, featured, losses
23 October 2017 06:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday a major landslide on a large cut slope at a construction site in Tanjung Bungah in Penang, Malaysia killed eleven workers
Tags: construction, cutslope, featured, landslide report, malaysia, SE. Asia
20 May 2016 06:46 in mitigation by Dave Petley
Yesterday the GFDRR launched its new ThinkHazard! tool, intended to provide high level mapping and advice on the likelihood of natural hazards in poor countries
Tags: featured, hazard assessment, mapping, risk
9 November 2015 08:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Colin Stark & Goran Ekstrom have found the seismic record for the Tonzang landslide in Burma. At 395 million tonnes it may be the largest non-seismic landslide for a decade
Tags: Burma, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, SE. Asia
1 September 2015 05:30 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The new NASA landslide video visualizes global rainfall-induced landslides between 2007 and 2015.
Tags: fatalities, featured, landslide video, NASA
15 October 2014 06:57 in landslide video by Dave Petley
I have come across three really interesting and high quality new landslide videos, including one that shows a backhoe surfing a landslide
Tags: backhoe, featured, indonesia, landslide video, taiwan
6 October 2014 06:57 in Database by Dave Petley
Data for fatal landslides in January to July 2014 show that there was a total of 222 events killing 1466 people, mostly in Asia.
Tags: database, death, fatal, fatality, featured, landslide
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