2 July 2018 06:28 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Yesterday a large retaining wall failed on a tall slope in Guang’an, Sichuan Province, China. This event was captured from a number of angles on video, now posted online
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, retaining wall, Sinhuan, video
11 June 2018 06:17 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Yesterday a small landslide at the Hidroituango dam site led to the evacuation of some of the workers on the site. Operations continue to manage the situation whilst waiting for the end of the rainy season, and an expected fall in the river level
Tags: Colombia, dam, featured, hidroituango, South America
5 June 2018 06:22 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Reports in the last few hours suggest that the landslide at the Hidroituango dam site has accelerated, and has now exceeded the 10 mm per hour warning threshold. Meanwhile, three scenarios for failure of the dam have been described by the international advisors.
Tags: Colombia, dam, featured, hydroelectric, South America
8 November 2017 07:47 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
A new paper (Stolle et al. 2017) in Quaternary Science Reviews suggests that 3 medieval earthquakes may have induced catastrophic landsliding in Nepal
Tags: debris flow, earthquake, featured, nepal, South Asia
5 November 2017 10:12 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Overnight, heavy rainfall has triggered a major rotational landslide at a newly-constructed engineered slope in George Town, Penang in Malaysia
Tags: construction, featured, landslide report, malaysia, retaining wall, SE. Asia
31 July 2017 06:43 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Saldim Peak in Nepal: new analyses suggest that the 20th April 2017 glacial flood that was actually caused by a giant rockslide
Tags: debris flow, featured, GLOF, Himalayas, landslide report, nepal, rockslope failure
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
29 March 2017 07:26 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Gareth Hearn has written a very nice paper in QJEGH that considers landslide problems on Nepal rural roads, highlighting the need for better route selection and design
Tags: featured, highway, nepal, road, South Asia
17 March 2017 09:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday 11th March a landslide at the Koshe garbage dump in Addis Ababa killed at least 115 people, most of them women and children
Tags: Africa, Ethiopia, featured, gargabe, landslide report, waste
10 February 2017 08:20 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At the Oroville Dam in Calfornia an extraordinary crisis has developed as the spillway undergoes massive, flood-induced erosion
Tags: california, dam, erosion, featured, flood, North America, USA
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