16 May 2008 04:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I am starting a second thread here to document landslides reported in the Sichuan earthquake. Background information about landslides and the earthquake is provided in the post below. I will update this list as new information becomes available. I would really welcome any information that can be provided – please email me ( [email protected] ) or post a comment. General observation: as feared, landslides have taken a terrible toll in …
Tags: 2008, china, earthquake, landslide report
16 May 2008 00:00 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
I thought a thread showing some news images of landslides triggered by the Sichuan earthquake would be useful. The first image shows vividly the likely impact of landslides in this area. AP photo entitled “Buildings are destroyed by landslides following Monday’s powerful magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Beichuan in Mianyang city in southwest China’s Sichuan Province Tuesday, May 13, 2008. A signboard atop the building at left reads: Beichuan Hotel” Xinhua …
Tags: 2008, china, earthquake, images, sichuan
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
11 January 2016 07:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a small number of mass ejection landslides have been described. Strangely, these have never been observed elsewhere.
Tags: china, earthquake, East Asia, featured, landslide mechanism, landslide report
29 June 2023 06:15 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 27 June 2023 landslide at Miansi, Sichuan Province, China, which is reported to have killed at least seven people.
Tags: china, debris flow, featured, landslide report, sichuan, Wenchuan
16 December 2022 05:00 in blogging by Dave Petley
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.
Tags: anniversary, blog, blogging, featured
2 November 2021 08:07 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
According to a new paper in the journal Landslides (Cheng, Yang and Du 2021), the 220,000 cubic metre 2017 Tonghua landslide in Sichuan Province, China was triggered by nearby blasting during tunnel construction.
Tags: china, debris slide, East Asia, featured, landslide report, research, review of a paper, sichuan
2 February 2021 08:33 in landslide video by Dave Petley
An air blast strikes trekkers at Kapuche Lake in Nepal following an avalanche, as caught in a video uploaded to Youtube.
Tags: air blast, avalanche, featured, nepal, South Asia
6 April 2020 07:00 in Research project by Dave Petley
A recent open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards (Zhang et al 2019) uses Beichuan to examine the perils and pitfalls of rapid off-site resettlement of people affected by disasters
Tags: china, dsaster, earthquake, East Asia, featured, paper, research, resettlement
17 September 2019 07:30 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new analysis of the air blast generated by the 2008 Wenjia rock avalanche suggests that it generated the windspeeds of a Force 12 hurricane, and that the impacts extended far beyond the margins of the landslide
Tags: air blast, china, East Asia, featured, paper, research, rock avalanche
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