2 February 2016 07:50 in Melanie by Dave Petley
The Mentirosa Island landslide complex comprises four tsunamigenic soil-rock slides in Patagonia, Chile, with a combined volume of 8 million cubic metres.
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide images, South America, tsunami, wave
23 August 2015 05:30 in humour by Dave Petley
Wile E. Coyote often tried to catch the Road Runner using rockfalls. Unfortunately he failed to understand how hard it is to predict landslide behaviour, especially in cartoon land.
Tags: cartoon, featured, rockfall, topple
13 March 2014 09:11 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Marten Geertsema has kindly made a set of images of the Mount La Perouse landslide available. These were collected during a field visit last week.
Tags: Alaska, featured, landslide report, Mount la Perouse, rock avalanche, USA
26 February 2014 08:33 in landslide images, landslide report by Dave Petley
NASA have published before and after images of the Mount La Perouse landslide in Alaska, plus a first assessment of its mobility
25 February 2014 07:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Satellite images and additional photographs are now available of the Mount La Perouse rock avalanche. This is a big landslide – runout distance is >7 km
Tags: Alaska, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, satellite, USA
2 June 2013 07:06 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new videos of snow and ice on the move, which illustrate aspects of the physics of landslides
Tags: ice, landslide video
17 May 2013 09:05 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A review of the Bingham Canyon landslide – was it the largest ever historic, non-volcanic landslide in N. America?
Tags: featured, mine, mining, North America, USA
14 May 2013 04:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Alaska on Sunday a couple survived a landslide by outrunning it. It is extremely rare to survive a landslide in this way
Tags: Alaska, featured, landslide report, survival, USA
22 March 2013 07:04 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Goran Ekstrom and Colin Stark have today published a paper in Science on the detection of large landslides using seismic data. This provides the potential to create a catalogue of these events and to analyse, for the first time, their dynamics
Tags: featured, paper, reserach, rock avalanche
3 October 2012 11:07 in obituary by Dave Petley
The renowned landslide geologist Earl Brabb, who worked for the USGS for 40 years, has recently died.
Tags: featured, landslide expert, obituary, USA, USGS
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