6 June 2022 07:49 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
On 10 June 2021 an extreme rainstorm triggered over 100 landslides, including a set of devastating debris flows, in the Wuxie scenic area in Zhejiang Province in China.
Tags: china, debris flows, East Asia, featured, research, review of a paper
21 January 2022 08:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has written an interactive game, Murgame, that highlights the risks associated with debris flows to mountain communities
Tags: debris flow, featured, game, mitigation
4 October 2021 06:42 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
An interesting paper has just been published in the journal Science, (Cook et al. 2021), which looks at the seismic signals generated by the Chamoli rockslide and debris flow. It concludes that the event was fully detectable by seismic instruments located at up to 100 km from the event.
Tags: Chamoli, early warning, featured, India, research, rockslide, seismic, seismology, South Asia
6 April 2021 07:47 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Two deadly landslides have occurred in Indonesia over the last few days. On the flanks of Mount Lewotolok up to 80 were killed in a lahar, whilst on Andonara island 69 people were killed and 19 are missing in a debris flow.
Tags: featured, indonesia, lahar, landslide report, SE. Asia
15 February 2021 08:16 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
New perspectives on the Chamoli debris flow disaster in Uttarakhand provided by the high resolution Planet Labs imagery
Tags: Chamoli, featured, hydroelectric, India, Planet Labs, satellite, South Asia
28 August 2020 08:39 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 26 August 2020 debris flows induced by intense rainfall hit Charikar in Afghanistan, killing at least 100 people.
Tags: Afghanistan, debris flow, featured, landslide report, western Asia
3 August 2020 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the high, remote mountains of Tibet a debris flow, possibly induced by recent seismic activity, has created a valley-blocking landslide dam
Tags: earthquake, featured, satellite image, Sentinel, South Asia, tibet, valley blocking landslide
29 April 2020 06:55 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Thanks to the Hazmapper team, we have learned that major landslides occurred in West Pokot, Kenya on 18 April 2020, killing up to 40 people and displacing 4,000.
Tags: Africa, channelised debris flow, featured, Kenya, landslide disaster, Planet Labs, satellite image
4 April 2020 09:21 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Wall et al. (2020) describe a large debris flow triggered by heavy rainfall after the Milli Fire in Oregon.
Tags: featured, Oregon, paper, research, USA, wildfire
9 March 2020 06:57 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have captured imagery of the downstream impacts of the debris flow resulting from the Salkantay rock avalanche in Peru.
Tags: featured, Peru, Planet Labs, satellite, South America
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