9 March 2021 08:38 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Ebisu Circuit: an intriguing, high mobility landslide in volcanic materials caused by the 2021 Fukushima Earthquake in Japan
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, tephra, volcanic
18 January 2021 09:01 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Gravity always wins: new research by GNS Science has shown that in New Zealand landslides are more deadly than earthquakes
Tags: fatalities, featured, landslide costs, landslide impacts, New Zealand
18 December 2020 07:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
Arequipa, Peru: landslides triggered by a M=5.6 earthquake on 16 December 2020 have been caught on a dramatic video
Tags: earthquake, featured, landslide report, Peru, seismic, South America, video
28 September 2020 07:27 in Earthquake-induced landslide, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper (Xu et al. 2020) provides a greatly improved estimate of landslide fatalities from the The 1920 Haiyuan earthquake in China. They conclude that about 32,500 people were killed by landslides.
Tags: china, earthquake, East Asia, featured, paper, research
10 June 2020 07:20 in Research project, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new study published in Science Advances (Wang et al. 2020) shows that rainstorms tend to trigger landslides that sculpt the landscape at lower levels, whilst earthquake induced landslides cause erosion at higher elevations.
Tags: earthquake, featured, geomorphology, mountain, New Zealand, rainfall, research
9 June 2020 07:01 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal landslides (Massey et al. 2020) has mapped almost 30,000 landslides triggered by the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, Kaikoura, New Zealand
2 June 2020 06:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study (Shafique 2020) published in the journal Geomorphology shows that landslide activity remained high for at least 13 years after the Kashmir earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, Kashmir, research, S. Asia
29 January 2020 07:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new study (Li et al. 2020) has found that a specific weak pumice layer controlled landslides triggered by the M=6.7 September 2018 Hokkaido Iburi-Tobu earthquake
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, East Asia, featured, japan, research
15 December 2019 13:52 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
High quality imagery is now available on Google Earth showing the hundreds of landslides on Mount Kinabalu triggered by the 5 June 2015 M=6.0 earthquake
Tags: earthquake, featured, malaysia, miuntain, rockfall, SE. Asia
19 November 2019 07:32 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new study (Barth et al. 2019) has mapped the landslides triggered by the 27 October 2012 Mw=7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake in British Columbia, Canada
Tags: Canada, coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, North America, paper, research
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