21 January 2017 10:13 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 16th December 2016, a major landslide destroyed the penstock and associated infrastructure at the Xekaman 3 hydroelectric power plant site in Laos
Tags: Asia, dam, featured, hydroelectric power, landslide report, Laos
4 November 2016 14:12 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The Norcia earthquake last weekend triggered the Nera River landslide, a 600,000 cubic metre rock slope failure that blocked the river
Tags: earthquake, Europe, featured, Italy, landslide report, rock avalanche
19 October 2016 07:51 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The official Tribunal for the Aberfan disaster strongly criticised the National Board for their failure to manage water in the spoil tip that failed
Tags: coal, Europe, featured, flowslide, inquiry, mining, UK, Wales
18 October 2016 07:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The tribunal into the Aberfan disaster robustly criticised the National Coal Board for their failure to learn from a number of previous significant landslides in spoil heaps, including some at Aberfan itself
Tags: Aberfan, Europe, featured, mining, South wales, spoil, UK
4 September 2016 08:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Over the last few days, 19 people have been killed by landslides in Nepal, with the most serious impacts occurring in Taplejung in the east of the country.
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
27 January 2016 08:05 in Melanie by Dave Petley
Triggered by the Mw 6.2 Aysén earthquake in Chile on 21 April 2007, the Punta Cola rock avalanche has a volume of 22.4 million cubic metres
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, Melanie, rock avalanche, South America
22 December 2015 08:41 in landslide report by Dave Petley
It is now clear that the Guangdong landslide was a flowslide from a huge pile of construction waste in a quarry about the industrial park.
Tags: china, construction waste, East Asia, featured, flowslide, landslide treport
19 December 2015 07:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Early on Friday morning a landslide triggered by heavy rainfall killed a woman near to Florence in Oregon, NW USA
Tags: featured, landslide report, North America, Oregon, USA
14 September 2015 05:29 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The Japanese aid agency JICA have generated a wonderful 3D rendering of the Rilpola, Badulla landslide in Sri Lanka, which shows the likely role of inadequate engineering on a track in initiating the landslide.
Tags: featured, landslide image, South Asia, sri lanka
30 August 2015 06:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A landslide a couple of weeks ago at Sitka in Alaska killed 3 men. Google Earth imagery of the site suggests that it may have an active geomorpic history
Tags: Alaska, featured, geomorphic, geomorphology, landslide report, mapping, USA
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