How to escape a landslide
14 May 2013 04:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Alaska on Sunday a couple survived a landslide by outrunning it. It is extremely rare to survive a landslide in this way
14 May 2013 04:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Alaska on Sunday a couple survived a landslide by outrunning it. It is extremely rare to survive a landslide in this way
22 May 2012 07:35 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A remarkable landslide occurred in Preonzo, Switerland last week. Fortunately, the main collapse event was captured on video
27 October 2011 05:14 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A spectacular new video has appeared of a rockfall onto the Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand.
7 October 2011 13:47 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Surely the greatest ever rock cliff collapse video!
27 April 2011 06:48 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the last few days a series of new videos have emerged of landslides and rockfalls as they occur. Thanks to various people for highlighting them to me. I am still struggling with the WordPress embed function (it was so easy in Blogger!), so apologies that some of this will have to be done through external links. First, a couple of weeks ago a debris flow killed 20 people when …
7 April 2011 05:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A really great new video of a landslide in action in California – don’t miss it!
5 December 2010 20:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Colombia is currently suffering from exceptional rainfall, inducing widespread flooding and disruption. Yesterday a landslide occurred in the suburbs of Medellin in a very poor settlement called Bello, destroying a number of dwellings. At the moment there appears to be great confusion as to the likely impact of the slide, with the reported number of buried people ranging from 50 to 200 or more. The local national paper, El Tiempo, has a more considered report that includes eye-witness statements.
4 May 2010 11:18 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
For this year’s EGU General Assembly I intend to only blog on talks that really catch my eye. This morning there was a fabulous session on Landslide Forecasting with series of great talks. Of these, Samuele Segoni and colleagues presented a very interesting paper on a hugely ambitious project to develop a regional landslide warning system for Tuscany based on rainfall thresholds. The project appears to be extraordinarily successful – …
31 March 2010 07:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The mainstream media is reporting a story this morning that breeding toads in Italy apparently relocated from their nests five days before last year’s L’aquilla earthquake in Italy. This is picking up on a paper published in the Journal of Zoology today by a team from the Open University. The paper examines toad numbers at San Ruffino lake, 74 km from the earthquake focus: The authors observed that on 28th …
11 November 2009 20:40 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Many of the landslide videos that I have featured on here have been quite low quality. The one featured below is unusually good. I have updated this to provide the (better) Youtube version: The slide apparently occurred at Polk County in Tennessee, USA, on 10th November 2009. The slide appears to be a rockslide on a discontinuity dipping parallel to the slope. An interesting element of this is the clear …
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