22 August 2017 23:35 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In July the Zuta Village landslide in Hunan Province, China killed nine people. This was another spectacular example of a high mobility landslide
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, flow, landslide images, landslide report, liquefaction
20 August 2017 00:41 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In one of his last contributions, a paper by Oldrich Hungr and his colleagues provides a dynamic analysis of the 2014 Oso landslide, which killed 43 people
Tags: analysis, dynamic, featured, North America, Oso, research, review of a paper
28 April 2017 07:06 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper examines both the materials and the mechanisms of the 2014 Oso landslide, and proposes a new model that fits all of the available evidence
Tags: featured, flowslide, North America, Oso, paper, research, USA
30 December 2016 18:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Jharkhand in India and Hpakant in Burma (Myanmar): two mine waste landslides in the last two days that have caused multiple fatalities
Tags: Burma, featured, India, landslide report, mine, mine waste
30 August 2016 07:18 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday the official report into the Samarco Tailings Dam failure in Brazil was released. A website has been created to allow the report to be downloaded. The investigation documents a long series of management problems at the site prior to the final collapse.
Tags: brazil, featured, investigation, landslide report, mining, South America, tailings
26 April 2016 07:19 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Stunning data from DPRI at Kyoto University, and available as a Google Earth kmz file, provides the first map of the distribution of landslides triggered by the M=7.0 Kumamoto Earthquake in Japan
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, featured, japan, map
19 April 2016 07:24 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Drone footage and high quality images are now becoming available of the Kumamoto Earthquake landslides in Japan. In some cases the landslides appear to be remarkable.
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, featured, flowslide, japan, Kumamoto, lahar, landslide report
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
Tags: Caribbean, earthquake, featured, Jamaica, rock avalanche
25 April 2015 06:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The M=7.5 shallow earthquake in Nepal this morning is likely to have caused serious damage, especially in the epicentral region of Lamjung
Tags: earthquake, featured, nepal, South Asia
15 December 2014 06:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Late of Friday night a landslide in Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia killed 32 people, with an estimated 76 people still missing.
Tags: earthflow, featured, indonesia, Java, landslide report
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