25 March 2020 08:21 in Database by Dave Petley
In 2019 I recorded a total 463 non-seismic fatal landslides, causing 3270 deaths, plus a further 27 fatal landslides triggered by earthquakes, making 2019 the third worst on record.
Tags: 2019, database, fatal landslides, featured
18 November 2019 07:31 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
On the 90th anniversary of the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake and tsunami, a new study suggests that tsunamigenic submarine landslides may be more common than we thought
Tags: Canada, featured, North America, submarine landslide, tsunami
4 November 2019 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A sequence of earthquakes in Cotabato in the Philippines in late October 2019 has triggered a number of large landslides, causing at least seven fatalities
Tags: earthquake, featured, philippines, SE. Asia
23 October 2019 06:36 in Research project by Dave Petley
Floods from valley-blocking landslides may play a key role in the carbon cycle, allowing wood to be transported from the high mountains to the deep ocean floor
Tags: carbon, dam, featured, global heating, paper, research
15 October 2019 05:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The 2020 International Summer School on Rockslides and Related Phenomena in the Kokomeren River Valley (Kyrgyzstan) (ICL Kokomeren Summer School)
Tags: course, featured, Kyrgyzstan, summer school, training, West Asia
25 September 2019 06:21 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The 24th September 2019 M=5.6 Mirpur earthquake in NW Pakistan appears to have generated some large lateral spreads along the banks of the Jhelum River.
Tags: earthquake, featured, lateral spread, liqufaction, pakistan, South Asia
17 September 2019 07:30 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new analysis of the air blast generated by the 2008 Wenjia rock avalanche suggests that it generated the windspeeds of a Force 12 hurricane, and that the impacts extended far beyond the margins of the landslide
Tags: air blast, china, East Asia, featured, paper, research, rock avalanche
30 July 2019 22:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 1987 Mount Zandila landslide in northern Italy is probably the most important rock avalanche in Europe in the last 40 years. The 34 million cubic metre slide killed 29 people
Tags: Europe, featured, Italy, landslide dam, rock avanalnche
10 April 2019 02:50 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
GEER has published a report on the Palu-Donggala landslides, triggered by the 28 September 2018 Mw=7.5 Palu earthquake in Indonesia
Tags: earthquake, featured, flowslide, indonesia, landslide report, SE. Asia
2 April 2019 06:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A study has been published of landslides triggered by the 18th November 2017 Ms=6.9 earthquake in the Tsangpo Gorge area of Tibet
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, landslide dam, tibet, valley blocking landslide
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