11 March 2019 07:27 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has been posted onto Youtube showing a reasonably small but undeniably spectacular rockslide in Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas
Tags: engineering, featured, India, road, rockslide, South Asia
13 February 2019 07:45 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new paper published in Landslides examines movement of the Su Village (Sucun) landslide in China, which killed 27 people in 2016, using InSAR techniques
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, INSAR, monitoring, radar, warning
25 December 2018 13:30 in landslide report, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Bureya River: on 11th December 2018 a large landslide occurred in the Khabarovsk region of Russia. Speculation suggested it was a meteor impact. It wasn’t.
Tags: Central Asia, feayured, meteor, meteorite, rock slope, Russia
13 December 2018 07:18 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Late in November the Geological Survey of Norway launched InSARNORWAY, a new national level deformation map for the whole of the country
12 December 2018 16:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Sunday a landslide destroyed some houses in Fenshui, Sichuan Province in China. Five people were killed. It seems that a new road was being built across the slope
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, road
7 November 2018 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Recent research shows that the problematic Mannen rockslide in Norway has shown two previous phases of extensive activity. Guest post by Paula Hilger of NGU
Tags: dating, Europe, featured, Holocene, Norway, research, rockslide
27 February 2018 07:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Information is slowly emerging about landslides triggered by the Mw=7.5 Papua New Guinea earthquake. As expected, landslides appear to have been a significant factor in the losses caused by the shaking
Tags: earthquake, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, SE. Asia
26 February 2018 08:10 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
First reports of landslides triggered by the Mw=7.5 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Significant slides have been reported at the Ok Tedi mine, 210 km from the epicentre
Tags: earthquake, featured, mine, mining, Papua New Guinea, SE. Asia
6 February 2018 07:43 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
A paper just published in Geo-Marine Letters, Conway and Barrie 2018 – describes a new landslide type – the submarine sackungen – observed in the flanks of Douglas Channel in British Columbia
Tags: Canada, featured, North America, sackungen, submarine landslide
23 December 2017 09:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Images of the Villa Santa Lucia rock avalanche, inclduing prefailure views of the source and post failure views of the track, are now online
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, South America
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