31 March 2017 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has been posted on Youtube that shows a dramatic landslide that occurred at Point Dume on the Californian coast on 25th March 2017
Tags: california, coastal cliff, featured, landslide video, USA
7 April 2016 15:30 in landslide video by Dave Petley
This post features 5 new landslide videos, including two dashcam videos from China, a terrifying rockfall video from Peru, a toppling failure from India & a feature on the GNS earthquake response
Tags: china, dashcam, India, landslide video, New Zealand
12 June 2013 07:42 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
A landslide induced rupture of the Trans-Ecuador pipeline on 31st May is polluting the Coca River, affecting Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Two shocking videos show the extent of the pollution
Tags: brazil, Ecuador, featured, oil, Peru, pipeline
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
16 August 2012 00:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
Tags: database, featured, global, landslide report, paper, research
5 December 2011 22:55 in Conference by Dave Petley
A report on the first landslide session from AGU 2011.
14 July 2010 21:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Long term readers of this blog will know that one of its original purposes was to disseminate the work that I do collating data on fatal landslides worldwide. As the Attabad situation reduces in its intensity I plan to return to some of those key themes. So here is a half term report on the occurrence of fatal landslides in 2010. Numbers of landslides:As of the end of 30th June …
Tags: database, fatal landslides, fatalities, monthly report
6 May 2010 08:43 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Wednesday morning I attended the presentation by Dave Keefer, the winner of the Sergei Soloviev medal. Dave has single-handedly defined the field of seismically-induced landslides, an area of great importance. In the lat five years alone such slides have killed over 50,000 people, and the ongoing landslide activity in the aftermath of big earthquake events means that the legacy of the shaking continues for decades after the main shock. …
Tags: conference report, EGU
27 January 2010 22:41 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Southern Peru has for the last few days suffered extremely heavy rainfall. The Living in Peru blog reports upon the impact for local people in the province of Urubamba, Cusco. This includes10 people killed; 2,000 collapsed houses leaving 10,000 people homeless; and crops, cattle and roads swept away. The district of Yucay is isolated due to the floods, the Vilcanota river has broken its banks on both sides, causing many …
Tags: landslide report, new report, Peru
25 October 2009 19:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Friday the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) released an atlas of potential natural disasters affecting the countries of that region, which has come out of the PREDECAN project. It presents maps of the distributions of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, flooding, frost and drought, with a special emphasis on El Nino / La Nina. As far as I can tell this atlas is available only …
Tags: atlas, El Nino, landslide map, South America
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