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
11 September 2018 23:24 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
High quality drone footage has been posted on Facebook providing detailed views of the landslides from the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake
Tags: East Asia, featured, flow, Hokkaido, japan, volcanic soils, weathering
6 September 2018 22:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
More details are emerging about the landslides triggered by 6th September 2018 Hokkaido earthquake. The high landslide density may reflect recent rainfall.
5 September 2018 22:39 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Initial images from Japan indicated that the Mw=6.6 earthquake in Hokkaido today has induced significant numbers of landslides
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, japan, PAGER
29 August 2018 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Salvatore Martino has kindly provided information about landslides triggered by the 16 August 2018 Mw=5.1 Molise earthquake in southern Italy
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, Europe, featured, inventory, Italy
15 May 2018 06:38 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review Ten years ago the most destructive seismic event in a generation, the Wenchuan Earthquake, struck the Longmenshan in Siichuan Province in China. I covered the event on this blog – indeed on 12th May 2008, at 07:27 UT, 29 minutes after the Earthquake occurred, I wrote: “it is reasonable to assume that this earthquake will have triggered large numbers of …
Tags: china, earthquake, East Asia, featured, research, Wenchuan
27 April 2018 07:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In a new paper just published in Landslides, Li et al. (2018) use a shaking table model to show that the Newmark displacement method overestimates the critical acceleration value for earthquake induced landslides
Tags: earthquake, featured, model, Newmark, paper, research
9 April 2018 23:18 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Photographs taken from boats showed coastal cliff rockfalls on Santa Cruz island in California during the M=5.4 earthquake on Thursday 5th April
Tags: california, cliff, coast, earthquake, featured, North America
4 April 2018 22:46 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Better satellite images are now becoming available showing the large landslides triggered by the Papua New Guinea earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, imagery, landslide dam, Papua New Guinea, planet, satellite, SE. Asia
3 April 2018 02:52 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper, Massey et al (2018) describe initial maps of the landslides triggered by the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake in New Zealand
Tags: earthquake, featured, Kaikoura, New Zealand
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