29 April 2015 06:43 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A team from the EWF project has compiled a set of landslide guidelines to guide recovery and relief operations in Nepal
Tags: earthquake, featured, guidelines, nepal, South Asia
16 April 2015 07:40 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a recent open access paper, Lavigne et al (2005) have investigated a catastrophic landslide at the Leuwigajah dumpsite Indonesia, which killed 143 people
Tags: dumpsite, featured, flow, garbage, Indionesia, landslide report, waste
19 March 2015 08:03 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The medieval Klisura Monastery in Serbia is being threatened by a landslide.
Tags: ancient landslide, Europe, landslide report, monastery, Serbia
29 January 2015 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Northern India, landsliding is occurring upslope of the Pakyong airport construction site, which has used extensive slope cutting during construction
Tags: airport, featured, India, landslide report, South Asia
11 November 2014 11:46 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recent paper in Engineering Geology discusses the mechanisms of the Donghekou landslide in China, which killed over 700 people. A strange aspect of the landslide was the formation of fumeroles on the landslide deposit; these are believed to have been the result of oxidation of shales exposed by the landslide
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, review, review of a paper
24 August 2014 22:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The level of the lake behind the Sunkoshi landslide dam shows no signs of reducing, despite extensive efforts by the army to widen the channels
Tags: featured, landslide dam, landslide report, nepal, South Asia, sunkoshi
7 August 2014 11:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Bhote Kosi landslide crisis continues, with little reduction in the level of the lake despite the best efforts of the Nepal Army
Tags: Bhote Kosi, featured, landslide report, nepal, valley blocking landslide
6 August 2014 08:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The government mapping agency in China has released satellite images of landslides triggered by the Yunnan earthquake earlier this week
Tags: china, earthquake, featured, landslide report, valley blocking landslide, yunnan
2 August 2014 07:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A massive landslide in the Sunkoshi Valley of northern Nepal has created an instant, very serious valley-blocking landslide crisis
Tags: Arniko highway, featured, landslide dam, nepal, valley blocking landslide
5 June 2014 08:52 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Moving mountains: a new paper in Nature reveals an enormous programme of mountain top removal in China to create land for development. The landslide potential from such a project is high
Tags: china, featured, mountain-top removal, review of a paper
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