1 August 2008 08:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Hat tip to Scott McDougall, Erik Eberhardt and Andrew Giles, all from Canada, for this one. Many readers will be familiar with the classic book “Rock Slope Engineering” by Evert Hoek, which still represents the bible for understanding the mechanisms of failure of hard rock slopes. The cover of the original version featured a photograph of a 1965 rock slope failure on the so-called “Sea to Sky” highway in British …
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5 June 2023 06:37 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Several significant landslides associated with rapid snowmelt in western North America in May 2023, driven by exceptional temperatures.
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16 January 2023 07:36 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Since the start of 2023, California has been hit by a succession of major rainstorms. To date at least 402 landslides have been triggered.
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11 January 2023 07:53 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A very large, unusual landslide has occurred in Rosas, Cauca in Columbia, displacing over 700 people and closing the Pan American Highway
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28 October 2022 06:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 15 November 2021 2021 Duffey Lake landslide in Canada: the role of old logging roads in triggering slope failures
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23 September 2022 06:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 17 September 2022 a large rock avalanche developed from the collapse of a rock slope at Lamplugh Glacier in Alaska
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29 March 2021 07:55 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Another giant, high mountain landslide occurred on 22 March 2021, this time close to the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet. The estimated mass is around 100 million tonnes.
Tags: featured, landslide report, Planet Labs, SE. Asia, tibet
16 December 2020 07:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A massive rockslope failure and 13 km long debris flow near to Bute Inlet in British Columbia, Canada in late November
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3 November 2020 07:41 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Williams Lake: On 31st October 2020 a 1 million cubic metre landslide, triggered by heavy rainfall, occurred in British Columbia, Canada
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16 October 2020 07:30 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Harrison Lake: a nice paper in the journal Landslides (Hughes et al 2020) describes newly discovered, large, ancient landslide deposits in Canada. The two largest landslides would have been tsunamigenic.
Tags: Canada, featured, lake, North America, paper, research, tsunami
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