by Dave Petley
4 July 2023 06:58 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Xue et al, 2023) examines the triggering of the December 2020 Qingliucun landslide in Sichuan, China.
by Dave Petley
21 April 2023 06:29 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.
by Dave Petley
3 March 2023 08:16 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
High resolution SkySat satellite images have been captured by Planet of the 23 February 2023 Alxa League coal mine landslide in China.
by Dave Petley
25 January 2023 08:00 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Yan et al. (2023) discuss the 30 August 2020 debris flow at Azijue village in Sichuan, China, which killed three people and destroyed two villages. The losses were caused by an unusual secondary failure of ancient deposits in the channel bed.
by Dave Petley
3 October 2022 06:55 in Mining by Dave Petley
Shuiliandong: a paper in the journal Landslides (Ma et al, 2022) highlights an example of a landslide triggered by underground coal mining
by Dave Petley
7 September 2022 09:00 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 5 September 2022 M=6.8 earthquake in Luding County, Sichuan has triggered large numbers of landslides, causing extensive damage.
by Dave Petley
1 June 2022 06:44 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A paper just published in Landslides (Feng et al 2021) describes 327 landslides triggered by intense rainfall in June 2019 around Mibie village, Guangdong Province in China.
by Dave Petley
7 April 2022 07:55 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in the journal Landslides (Garcia-Delgado, Petley et al. 2022), we have examined the history of fatal landslides in Colombia. The results are quite surprising.
by Dave Petley
22 February 2022 07:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study has found increased landslide activity in the months after the low-magnitude 2018 Molise earthquake in Italy
by Dave Petley
18 January 2022 08:11 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Arhavi, Turkey: a new paper in the Journal Natural Hazards (Tanyaş et al. 2022) shows that landslide impacts of new roads can be comparable to that of a medium sized earthquake
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