22 April 2020 06:39 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Zongling: a new open access paper (Wang et al. 2020) in the Journal Landslides describes a new InSAR method to monitor landslide movement caused by coal mining in Guizhou Province, China
Tags: china, deformation, East Asia, featured, INSAR, monitoring
20 April 2020 06:32 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The Planet Labs images from the Salkantay landslide in Peru suggest that the rock avalanche behaved in ways that are quite surprising.
Tags: featured, Peru, Planet Labs, rock avalanche, South America
17 March 2020 07:58 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In 1919 a devastating eruption of Mount Kelud in Indonesia triggered massive lahars that killed 5,160 people on the flanks of the volcano
Tags: featured, indonesia, lahar, SE. Asia, volcano
16 March 2020 07:14 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new open access paper (Mergili et al. 2020), analyses the deadly 2017 Piz Cengalo rock avalanche and debris flow in Switzerland, which killed eight people
Tags: debris flow, Europe, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, Switzerland
28 February 2020 08:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Salkantay landslide was a wedge failure in the near-vertical rock mass. The mass fragmented on impact to form a rock/ice avalanche that transitioned to a mudflow.
Tags: featured, mudflow, Peru, rock and ice avalanche, South America
24 February 2020 07:20 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The Kandersteg rock avalanche is a 1.2 cubic kilometre rockslide that occurred in Switzerland about 3,200 years ago, according to new research
Tags: dating, Europe, featured, research, rock avalanche, Switzerland
11 February 2020 07:39 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A seismic analysis of the 23 July 2019 Shuicheng landslide in China, which killed 51 people, has provided a detailed understanding of the failure process
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, paper, research, satellite, seismic
21 January 2020 07:48 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 23 July 2019 a large landslide occurred at Pingdi village in Shuicheng County, in Guizhou Province, China. A first scientific account of this landslide (Li et al. 2020) has been published in the journal Landslides
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, paper
20 January 2020 07:15 in Tailings by Dave Petley
Last month the official Expert Panel released its report on the Feijao tailings dam disaster at Brumadinho in Brazil, which killed over 300 people.
Tags: brazil, featured, mine, mining, South America, tailings
18 October 2019 06:59 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Various newspaper articles in Japan are serving to illustrate the multiple landslides triggered in Japan by Typhoon Hagibis last weekend.
Tags: East Asia, featured, japan, typhoon
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