31 March 2017 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has been posted on Youtube that shows a dramatic landslide that occurred at Point Dume on the Californian coast on 25th March 2017
Tags: california, coastal cliff, featured, landslide video, USA
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
9 March 2017 07:42 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Three new videos have been posted on Youtube that show a dramatic landslide at Chamba in Himachal Pradesh, India, which apparently occurred on Monday
Tags: featured, India, landslide video, road, South Asia
30 December 2016 18:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Jharkhand in India and Hpakant in Burma (Myanmar): two mine waste landslides in the last two days that have caused multiple fatalities
Tags: Burma, featured, India, landslide report, mine, mine waste
9 December 2016 08:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new paper has revealed interesting spatial characteristics of landslides triggered by the 2015 M=7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal
30 November 2016 09:35 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A recently-published paper suggests that the Himalayan country of Bhutan suffered a major (approx M=8.0) earthquake in 1714, emphasing the potential for a future event that would probably lead to extensive landsliding.
Tags: Bhutan, earthquake, featured, South Asia
19 August 2016 22:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Whilst at the moment the Dzongu landslide dam in Sikkim appears to be stable, the Indian authorities are starting to assess the long term hazards that it might pose to upstream and downstream communities
Tags: emergency response, featured, India, landslide dam, South Asia
15 August 2016 20:18 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Water started to overtop the Dzongu landslide dam in Sikkim, India yesterday. To date the flow appears to be stable, with the channel widening rather than incising.
Tags: featured, India, landslide dam, landslide report, South Asia
25 July 2016 07:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Three excellent landslide videos are now available on Youtube, including a rockslide from Gangotri in India and two from rural China
10 July 2016 08:27 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Three good new landslide videos are available on Youtube, shot in Nagasaki (Japan), Uttarakhand (India) and in the mountains of Pakistan
Tags: featured, India, japan, landslide video, pakistan, video
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