Landslides in Art Part 31: Leonardo da Vinci
19 December 2019 07:00 in Art by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Margottini 2019) suggests that Leonardo da Vinci depicted at least two landslides in his wonderful drawings
19 December 2019 07:00 in Art by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Margottini 2019) suggests that Leonardo da Vinci depicted at least two landslides in his wonderful drawings
20 September 2019 07:22 in Tailings by Dave Petley
The failure of the Stava tailings dam in Trento, Italy in 1985 generated a mudflow that killed 268 people downstream of the facility.
30 July 2019 22:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The 1987 Mount Zandila landslide in northern Italy is probably the most important rock avalanche in Europe in the last 40 years. The 34 million cubic metre slide killed 29 people
25 July 2019 22:22 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs satellite images suggest that the road across the Pingdi landslide in China, which killed about 45 people this week, was widened with cut slopes in the months before the failure
21 June 2019 06:43 in Conference by Dave Petley
Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation: Mechanics, Monitoring, Modeling and Assessment:- the proceedings of the recent international conference are available online
6 November 2017 08:04 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The Nuugaatsiaq landslide in Greenland: understanding failure processes from the precursory seismic signals (review of a paper)
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
6 February 2017 08:21 in landslide video by Dave Petley
On Saturday the landslide induced collapse of a large retaining wall at Bova Marina in Italy was captured on video and posted to Youtube
27 December 2016 10:02 in landslide report, Research project by Dave Petley
The full set of project reports about landslide hazard and risk management from the EU FP7 Safeland project are now available online once more.
8 December 2016 08:02 in Oddities by Dave Petley
In the small historic village of Civita di Bagnoregio is located what may be the worlds first museum dedicated to landslides
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