14 August 2020 07:16 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Pettimudi landslide in Kerala, India on 6 August 2020 was a c.2 km long channelised flow. It now appears that 66 people were killed.
Tags: debris flow, featured, India, Kerala, landslide report, South Asia
13 August 2020 08:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Yesterday a rail accident near to Stonehaven in Scotland killed three people. There is speculation that it was caused by a landslide. This shines a light on the challenges of managing ageing earthworks on the UK rail system.
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, rail derailment, Scotland, train, UK
14 July 2020 06:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last few days intense monsoon rainfall in Nepal has triggered a wave of landslides that have caused extensive loss of life and damage.
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
3 July 2020 07:52 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
John Flynn’s remarkable drone video of Dawn of Hope peat slide suggests that this might have been a bog burst that underwent retrogression
Tags: bog, drone video, Eire, featured, Ireland, peat
16 June 2020 07:24 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new landslide videos: a large landslide in a mine in Russia & dashcam footage of a small but high impact rockfall in California
Tags: california, featured, landslide video, mining, quarry, rockfall, Russia, video
10 June 2020 07:20 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new study published in Science Advances (Wang et al. 2020) shows that rainstorms tend to trigger landslides that sculpt the landscape at lower levels, whilst earthquake induced landslides cause erosion at higher elevations.
Tags: earthquake, featured, geomorphology, mountain, New Zealand, rainfall, research
28 May 2020 06:19 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recent paper (Latrubesse et al. 2020) suggests that the catastrophic July 2018 Xe Nammoy hydropower complex dam failure in Laos might have been caused by piping and slope failure of the dam, a mechanism that is similar to the #Edenville dam failure.
Tags: dam, dam failure, featured, Laos, SE. Asia
22 May 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As improved images and information become available, it is becoming possible to gain a better understanding of the cause of the Edenville Dam breach
Tags: breach, dam, featured, flood, Michigan, North Aerica, Planet Labs, USA
19 May 2020 06:45 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Helicopter company Alpine Air Alaska has posted to Facebook stunning images and a video of a long run out landslide from Yudi Peak in Alaska
Tags: Alaska, featured, glacier, North America, rockslide, snow, USA, video, wedge failure
27 April 2020 06:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have succeeded to collecting high resolution SkySat imagery of the Tendepo landslide in Papua New Guinea on 21 March 2020
Tags: featured, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, Planet Labs, satellite image, SE. Asia
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