8 February 2019 08:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Submarine landslides can creep too: we have just published a paper (Carey et al. 2019) in the journal Geomorphology exploring the mechanisms of movement of the Tuaheni landslide offshore from New Zealand
Tags: experiments, featured, New Zealand, research, submarine landslide
1 February 2019 07:31 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The human and environmental costs of the Brumadinho disaster in Brazil are becoming increasingly clear, whilst speculation continues as to the causes of the collapse of the tailings dam
Tags: brazil, Brumadinho, features, mine, mining, planet, South America, tailings
27 January 2019 16:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The enormous scale of the tailings dam collapse at Feijão mine in Brumadinho, Brazil is now clear. The dam was 87 m high, holding c13 million cubic metres.
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, Sout America, tailings
4 January 2019 10:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
2018 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary landslides. This is my list of the ten most important landslide events of 2018
Tags: featured, global, important, landslide impacts, landslides
13 September 2018 23:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In a short space of time, Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence and the earthquake in Hokkaido all have the potential to generate large numbers of landslides
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, featured, hurricane, japan, landslide report, N. America, philippine, SE. Asia, typhoon, USA
18 April 2018 07:11 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Monday a 20,000 cubic metre rockslide at Castell de Mur in Catalonia, Spain killed two people. The rockslide occurred at the site of a village destroyed by landslides 70 years ago
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, rockslide, Spain
15 February 2018 08:56 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A paper recently published in Engineering Geology (Fan et al. 2018) provides fascinating insights into the evolution of post-seismic debris flows, based on a study in the Wenchuan earthquake area of China
Tags: china, debris flow, earthquake, East Asia, featured, post-seismic, Wenchuan
17 November 2017 08:35 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Review of a paper:- detecting landslide precursors from space: the use of Sentinel images to interpret the Maoxian landslide in June 2017
Tags: Chine, East Asia, featured, INSAR, radar, review of a paper, stallite
11 September 2017 01:49 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An interesting earthflow was caught on video last week at Dimye in Tibet. It is currently unclear as to whether this was associated with permafrost loss
Tags: china, earthflow, East Asia, featured, landslide video, peat, tibet, video
27 June 2017 06:46 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Gediminas Castle Hill: a long-term landslide crisis at a historic site in Vilnius in Lithuania threatens an ancient castle
Tags: culture, earthwork, Europe, featured, heritage, historic, landslide report, Lithuania
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