Landslides in Art Part 14: A Victorian railway painting
15 August 2012 07:09 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The latest edition of landslides in art, this time featuring a Victorian lithograph from Devon, Southern England
15 August 2012 07:09 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The latest edition of landslides in art, this time featuring a Victorian lithograph from Devon, Southern England
24 July 2012 13:56 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Brreaking news that there has been a serious landslide in Burton Bradstock, Dorset, UK, with the possibility that people may be trapped.
23 July 2012 07:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
This weekend there were many landslide incidents around the world. This blog post highlights nine of them, in the UK, Austria, Canada, Mexico, India and China
17 July 2012 14:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The bodies were discovered last night of two people killed in a landslide at Beaminster, in Dorset, S. England on 7th July
29 June 2012 07:55 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Intense rainfall brought by thunderstorms triggered multiple landslides on the UK rail network yesterday
15 March 2012 10:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A brief comparison of the recent chalk cliff rockfall in Dover with similar events in the literature
4 January 2012 11:08 in obituary by Dave Petley
Yesterday, the Daily Telegraph published a notice that John Hutchinson, Emeritus Professor of Soil Mechanics at Imperial College, died peacefully on 21st December 2011. I am sure that, like me, others working on landslides around the world will be greatly saddened by this news. John was born in 1926 and grew up in the city of Coventry before reading Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham. Upon graduating in 1947 …
9 October 2011 05:53 in landslide video by Dave Petley
More information has emerged about the cliff collapse video from Cormwall, SW England
7 October 2011 13:47 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Surely the greatest ever rock cliff collapse video!
6 January 2011 02:36 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Occasionally, I provide a round up of landslide events and news that has caught my eye in the last week. This is of course the low season for landslides worldwide, so fortunately the number of events is low: 1. Cliff collapse in Dover, UK On 1st January there was a mild flurry of interest in concerns that a rockfall on chalk cliffs near to Dover in Kent, in SE. England, …
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