The Luming Mine tailings accident in China
31 March 2020 06:42 in Mining, Tailings by Dave Petley
A significant tailings accident occurred on 28 March 2020, this time at the Luming Mine in Heilongjiang Province in NE China.
31 March 2020 06:42 in Mining, Tailings by Dave Petley
A significant tailings accident occurred on 28 March 2020, this time at the Luming Mine in Heilongjiang Province in NE China.
30 March 2020 06:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 27 March 2020 a large and unusual failure in a sand heap at the Guizhou Commercial Concrete Co in Guiyang in Guizhou province, China killed 7 people
28 March 2020 09:53 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 28 June 2010 heavy rainfall triggered the 1 million cubic metre Guanling landslide in Guizhou, China, killing 99 people in two villages
11 February 2020 07:39 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A seismic analysis of the 23 July 2019 Shuicheng landslide in China, which killed 51 people, has provided a detailed understanding of the failure process
22 August 2019 02:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Various news agencies in China are reporting multiple landslides triggered by extreme rainfall in the Wenchuan area, and adjacent regions, of China. Reports suggest 44 people have been killed or are missing.
20 August 2019 02:39 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A Planet Labs high resolution satellite image of the 23rd July 2019 Pingdi landslide in Liupanshui, Guizhou, China, which killed 51 people
25 July 2019 22:22 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs satellite images suggest that the road across the Pingdi landslide in China, which killed about 45 people this week, was widened with cut slopes in the months before the failure
24 July 2019 20:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large landslide occurred in Shuicheng County, in Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province in China on Tuesday 22nd July 2019, killing up to 45 people
29 May 2019 06:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In a new paper, Zhu et al. (2019) report the discovery of the giant Baiyun–Liwan submarine slide, which covers an area of c.40,000 sq km in the South China Sea
12 March 2019 07:44 in sinkhole, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An article in Engineering Geology (Xia et al. 2019) examines dramatic subsidence features induced by the Chengchao iron ore mine in China
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