by Dave Petley
15 July 2020 07:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large rock slope failure has developed at Cromwell in New Zealand. The NZTA are using helicopter sluicing to try to manage the hazard.
by Dave Petley
26 May 2020 06:03 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper published in Scientific Reports (Dini et al. 2020), and thus open access, uses InSAR to show movements of a large slope adjacent to the under construction Punatsangchhu I dam in Bhutan
by Dave Petley
17 April 2020 06:38 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Extraordinary high resolution satellite images of the source and deposit of the Salkantay rock avalanche in Peru, collected by Planet Labs.
by Dave Petley
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.
by Dave Petley
6 January 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Friele et al. (2020) provides a first detailed analysis of the May 2019 Joffre Peak landslides in Canada
by Dave Petley
18 December 2019 07:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Late on Friday 13 December 2019 a large wedge failure developed on a cut rock slope on the E18 motorway at Larvik in Norway
by Dave Petley
28 October 2019 07:56 in Mining by Dave Petley
Gongo Soco: Google Earth and Planet Labs images show continued large-scale deformation of the rock wall at a large mine in Brazil
by Dave Petley
15 October 2019 05:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The 2020 International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan) (ICL Kokomeren Summer School)
by Dave Petley
12 June 2019 06:21 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
An analysis by Zhu et al (2019) of the dynamics of the 2017 Nayong rock avalanche in China, using a combination of seismic data and drone imagery
by Dave Petley
3 April 2019 06:46 in Research project by Dave Petley
High resolution monitoring of a natural rock slope in the southern Japanese Alps has provided insight into the complexity of the timing of rockfalls
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
Recent Comments