by Dave Petley
22 February 2016 07:00 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A paper review by Andrea Wolter from ETH Zurich on the ways that geomorphic and seismic processes cause large landslides, based on a case study from Montana
by Dave Petley
4 February 2016 08:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan triggered large numbers of landslides. Google Earth imagery illustrates their dramatic impacts
by Dave Petley
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.
by Dave Petley
27 January 2016 08:05 in Melanie by Dave Petley
Triggered by the Mw 6.2 Aysén earthquake in Chile on 21 April 2007, the Punta Cola rock avalanche has a volume of 22.4 million cubic metres
by Dave Petley
17 January 2016 08:27 in landslide images by Dave Petley
In September 2010 a M=8.8 earthquake struck Arauco in Chile. These landslides are part of our Newton Fund project on earthquake induced landslides in Chile.
by Dave Petley
28 October 2015 08:05 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Some interesting videos and images are now emerging of landslides and rockfalls triggered by the M=7.5 Afghanistan earthquake on Monday
by Dave Petley
13 October 2015 07:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana is a giant prehistoric rockslide that has created a large lake in the Beartooth Mountains
by Dave Petley
5 October 2015 08:20 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report by Dave Petley
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in 2014.
by Dave Petley
25 September 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Switzerland on Monday the A1 motorway was closed by a landslide triggered by busy beavers.
by Dave Petley
15 September 2015 05:30 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
A team from Durham University is undertaking landslide monitoring of ten slopes in Nepal that were damaged in the April 2015 earthquake. The data is being streamed online in real time.
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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