12 April 2013 05:28 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Initial information, and some fantastic images, are now available of the Bingham Canyon copper mine landslide. This is one of the largest mining-induced landslides of all time.
Tags: featured, landslide report, mine, mining, USA, Utah
10 November 2021 07:44 in Mining by Dave Petley
A satellite image from Planet Labs shows the aftermath of a c.700 m landslide at the Ministro Hales mine in Chile between 8 and 9 November 2021. Thanks to @Geo_Risk for spotting this one.
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide report, mine, mining, South America
10 December 2020 08:11 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
Mindu in Tibet: a new open access paper in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences explores the detection of precursors of an imminent landslide using satellite images
Tags: East Asia, featured, monitoring, paper, research, tibet
6 September 2019 06:11 in landslide report by Dave Petley
After a phase of accelerated movement in the last few days, the large Velsemannen rockslide in Norway underwent a significant failure overnight
Tags: Europe, featured, monitoring, Norway, rockslide
2 January 2016 10:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In October 2015 the 72 million cubic metre Tyndall Glacier landslide in Alaska generated a significant tsunami that swept down the Taan Fjord.
Tags: Alaska, glacier, landslide report, North America, rock avalanche, tsunami, USA
9 November 2015 08:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Colin Stark & Goran Ekstrom have found the seismic record for the Tonzang landslide in Burma. At 395 million tonnes it may be the largest non-seismic landslide for a decade
Tags: Burma, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, SE. Asia
13 October 2015 07:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana is a giant prehistoric rockslide that has created a large lake in the Beartooth Mountains
Tags: featured, landslide dam, Montana, rock avalanche, USA
20 April 2015 06:41 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
The Bolshaya Talda earthflow, which I featured on this blog on Friday was a mine waster landslide. Readers have helped identify the location of the slide.
Tags: earthflow, featyrd, landslide video, mining, Russia, tailings
24 April 2014 10:44 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Landslide losses in the USA have come into focus in light of the slides at Oso and Jackson Hole. At present, investment in national scale landslide programmes in the US is extraordinarily low.
Tags: featured, landslide costs, USA
20 February 2014 07:42 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Using seismic data, Colin Stark and colleagues have detected a new, very large landslide in Alaska on Sunday. At about 68 million tonnes, this may have been the largest natural landslide since 2010
Tags: Alaska, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, seismic data, USA
Recent Comments