21 June 2017 06:20 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last 24 hours new images and video have emerged showing the Greenland landslide and the terrifying tsunami that it triggered.
Tags: featured, Greenland, landslide report, rock avalanche, tsunami
11 May 2017 07:17 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
Taiwan landslide hotspots: a new paper shows changing patterns through time in response to the extreme Typhoon Morakot event in 2008
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide research, paper, research, taiwan
25 April 2017 06:39 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
On the second anniversary of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, a recent paper compares the landslide distributions for the Nepal and China earthquakes. The results have profound implications for the understanding of potential landslide distributions from future earthquakes.
Tags: china, erathquake, featured, gorkha, nepal, Wenchuan
24 April 2017 06:58 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A few days ago a newspaper in New Zealand highlighted the potential Wellington earthquake landslide problem. Research is ongoing into this key issue
Tags: earthquake, featured, New Zealand, risk, Wellington
27 February 2017 07:40 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
In New Zealand, two research cruises by NIWA have mapped massive submarine landslides triggered by the Kaikoura earthquakes
Tags: earthquake, featured, Kaikoura, New Zealand, submarine landslide
24 February 2017 07:57 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Italy, a landslide at Ponzano di Civitella del Tronto is moving at a rate of about one metre per day, destroying the houses of about 120 people
Tags: drone, Europe, evacuation, featured, Italy, landslide report
22 February 2017 08:13 in landslide report, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In 2013 the catastrophic Sanxicun landslide in Sichuan Province in China killed 166 people. A new paper suggests that it reached a peak velocity of 170 km/h
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, research, review of a paper
27 January 2017 09:12 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In new paper, O’Brien et al. (2016) report that regional earthquakes generate substantial changes in the groundwater level in landslides in Cromwell Gorge, New Zealand
Tags: dam, earthquake, featured, New Zealand, paper, review
16 January 2017 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
To mark National Earthquake Day, the Nepal Times has a series of articles entitled Future Shock that examines the failure to learn from the 2015 earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, hazard, nepal, risk, South Asia, vulnerability
13 December 2016 19:24 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
GNS Science have just released a report detailing an inventory of landslides triggered by the 1929 Murchison Earthquake in New Zealand
Tags: earthquake, featured, landslide dataset, New Zealand
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