4 October 2021 06:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An interesting paper has just been published in the journal Science, (Cook et al. 2021), which looks at the seismic signals generated by the Chamoli rockslide and debris flow. It concludes that the event was fully detectable by seismic instruments located at up to 100 km from the event.
Tags: Chamoli, early warning, featured, India, research, rockslide, seismic, seismology, South Asia
5 July 2021 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Atami mudslides in Japan Over the weekend there was considerable attention paid to the remarkable videos of the mudflows in Atami, Japan. This one in particular gained traction:- . But there are several others, which are helpfully combined into a compilation here: . I particularly draw your attention to the excerpt that begins at 8 minutes 16 seconds into the second video (the same sequence appears in the first …
Tags: debris flow, East Asia, featured, japan, landslide report, mudflow
2 June 2021 10:19 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 1 October 1918 a train was derailed by a landslide at Getå in Sweden. The accident, and the subsequent fire, killed at least 42 people.
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, railway, Sweden, train
21 May 2021 10:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Pietrafitta landslide: a new paper published in Landslides (Guerriero et al. 2021) shows that traffic vibration can cause a landslide to move under certain circumstances
Tags: earthflow, Europe, featured, Italy, paper, research
14 May 2021 07:44 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Applications are open for LARAM (“LAndslide Risk Assessment & Mitigation”) 2021. LARAM is a fantastic two week training programme for early career researchers run by the University of Salerno.
Tags: education, featured, LARAM, training
30 March 2021 08:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The resilience of rail infrastructure: reports from the Network Rail earthworks and weather advisory task forces
Tags: earthworks, Europe, featured, Network Rail, rail, task force, train, UK, weather
18 March 2021 07:26 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
Retrogressive breach failures, are coastal flow slides that occur naturally in fine sands near dynamic tidal channels or rivers
Tags: featured, paper, research, video
11 March 2021 08:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Tavernola landslide: in Italy there is concern that failure of a large rock slope could generate a substantial tsunami in Lago d’Iseo
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, mine, mining, tsunami
10 March 2021 08:37 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new open access paper in the journal Progress in Disaster Science (Rosser et al. 2021) demonstrates that the number of landslides in W. and C. Nepal has increased since the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake.
Tags: earthquake, featured, monsoon, nepal, paper, research, South Asia
8 February 2021 15:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The catastrophic landslide and flood in Chamoli in Uttarakhand: over the last 24 hours, using @Planet Labs and other images, we have crowd-sourced the sequence of events
Tags: debris flow, disaster, featured, India, rock avalanche, South Asia
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