Samothraki: the role of goats in increasing landslide hazard
8 October 2019 06:37 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Samothraki: on a small Greek island, uncontrolled grazing of goats has led to a catastrophic increase in landslide hazard
8 October 2019 06:37 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
Samothraki: on a small Greek island, uncontrolled grazing of goats has led to a catastrophic increase in landslide hazard
4 October 2019 06:56 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 1st October 2019, another significant tailings dam failure occurred in Brazil, this time at Nosso Senhora do Livramento in Mato Grosso.
30 September 2019 06:35 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
As the 2019 summer monsoon draws to a close, Planet Labs are starting to collect cloud free images of the devastating landslides in Kerala, India
27 September 2019 06:26 in Mining by Dave Petley
Yet another mining-induced landslide occurred yesterday, in the Tibesti region of Chad in Africa, killing about 30 people.
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.
19 September 2019 06:37 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The high elevation Kumtor Goldmine in Kyrgyzstan is subject to unsual, very large, slowish moving landslides consisting of mine waste and glacial ice
17 September 2019 07:30 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new analysis of the air blast generated by the 2008 Wenjia rock avalanche suggests that it generated the windspeeds of a Force 12 hurricane, and that the impacts extended far beyond the margins of the landslide
12 September 2019 06:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
During construction of the Broomhead reservoir, near Sheffield, in the 1920s and 1930s, a large, deep-seated landslide caused major problems
11 September 2019 06:20 in sinkhole by Dave Petley
Xe Pian Xe Namnoy: a guest commentary by Richard Meehan and Douglas Hamilton on land stability and dam failure in the wake of the 2018 collapse on the Bolaven Plateau, Laos
2 September 2019 06:13 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 22nd January 2018 a train was derailed by a landslide at Loch Eilt in north-west Scotland. The RAIB report explains why the landslide was not retained by a catch fence installed at the location.
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