Mount Iliamna: a large landslide in Alaska on 20th June 2019
27 June 2019 06:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A very large landslide occurred on the flanks of Mount Iliamna, a volcano located in Alaska, on 21st June 2019.
27 June 2019 06:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A very large landslide occurred on the flanks of Mount Iliamna, a volcano located in Alaska, on 21st June 2019.
1 December 2018 00:03 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
First images of landslides triggered by the M=7.0 Alaska earthquake on 30th November 2018. Initial images show lateral spreads and rockfalls
10 September 2018 22:08 in Research project by Dave Petley
Frozen debris lobes: an interesting and significant hazard for the Dalton Highway in Alaska. Parts of the road are being realigned to manage the hazard
12 February 2018 08:04 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A large rockslope failure occurred at Cowee Creek near to Juneau in Alaska in December 2016, inducing a 9 m high, 90 m wide displacement wave that travelled at least 13 km down the valley
12 September 2017 22:12 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper (Coe et al. 2017) strongly suggests that the cluster of 24 rock avalanches since 1984 in S. Alaska may be associated with rock permafrost degradation
7 December 2016 07:47 in landslide video by Dave Petley
. The Icy Bay landslide in Alaska A very nice video has been posted on Youtube describing the link between the giant Icy Bay landslide in Alaska in 2015 (this landslide is also variously known as the Taan Fjord landslide and the Tyndall Glacier landslide), which is the largest known recent landslide in North America, and the melting of the adjacent glacier. The video features Dr Michael Loso, physical scientist …
17 July 2016 08:09 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new satellite image and two new videos are available of the enormous Glacier Bay landslide in Alaska, which occurred a few weeks ago
3 July 2016 08:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Tuesday 28th June a 150 million tonne landslide, the Lamplugh Glacier rock avalanche, occurred in Alaska. This enormous landslide travelled 10 km across the ice.
11 April 2016 08:21 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Chris Larsen from the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has released a set of aerial images of last year’s Tyndall Glacier landslide and tsunami in Taan Fjord in Alaska. This was the largest historic landslide in North America.
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.
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