by Dave Petley
26 June 2018 06:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Sunday a landslide occurred at Waioeka Gorge in New Zealand. The landslide, a wedge failure, was captured on video by Michael Tabudravu, a motorist who was driving on State Highway 2
by Dave Petley
15 May 2018 06:38 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review Ten years ago the most destructive seismic event in a generation, the Wenchuan Earthquake, struck the Longmenshan in Siichuan Province in China. I covered the event on this blog – indeed on 12th May 2008, at 07:27 UT, 29 minutes after the Earthquake occurred, I wrote: “it is reasonable to assume that this earthquake will have triggered large numbers of …
by Dave Petley
1 May 2018 06:31 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday a landslide in loess at Caijiazhuang in Shanxi Province, China killed nine people. This landslide seems to be similar to the cracking-sliding landslides described in recent research
by Dave Petley
27 April 2018 07:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In a new paper just published in Landslides, Li et al. (2018) use a shaking table model to show that the Newmark displacement method overestimates the critical acceleration value for earthquake induced landslides
by Dave Petley
8 April 2018 23:13 in Database, landslide costs by Dave Petley
A first analysis of fatal landslides, and the resultant deaths, in 2017. In terms of the number of events, 2017 was the third worst year since I started collecting data in late 2002. In total, 453 different landslides killed 4,164 people.
by Dave Petley
15 February 2018 08:56 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A paper recently published in Engineering Geology (Fan et al. 2018) provides fascinating insights into the evolution of post-seismic debris flows, based on a study in the Wenchuan earthquake area of China
by Dave Petley
30 January 2018 08:26 in landslide video by Dave Petley
It has been a while since I posted any footage, so here are three landslide videos, including one showing a very narrow escape for the passengers on a bus
by Dave Petley
2 January 2018 09:50 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The M=6.4 17th November 2017 earthquake in Tibet has triggered multiple landslides on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, triggering fears of a catastrophic flood in India
by Dave Petley
17 November 2017 08:35 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Review of a paper:- detecting landslide precursors from space: the use of Sentinel images to interpret the Maoxian landslide in June 2017
by Dave Petley
8 November 2017 07:47 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper (Stolle et al. 2017) in Quaternary Science Reviews suggests that 3 medieval earthquakes may have induced catastrophic landsliding in Nepal
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.
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