18 December 2018 11:01 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Loch Quioch landslide: an interesting and disruptive failure in the Highlands of Scotland in November, including drone footage
Tags: featured, landslide repoort, pylon, road, Scotland, UK
17 December 2018 07:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At 12:46 pm local time yesterday a shallow M=5.7 earthquake struck Sichuan Province in China, triggering at least one large landslide, at Luopo village
7 December 2018 07:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Guazi landslide: an interesting ancient landslide reactivated by a hydroelectric power scheme in China, as described in the journal Landslides
Tags: china, dam, East Asia, featured, hydroelectric power
25 November 2018 23:44 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have captured a high resolution Skysat image of the remains of the valley-blocking Yarlung Tsangpo landslide in Tibet
Tags: East Asia, feaured, glacier, Planet Labs, Tiber, valley blocking landslide
22 November 2018 08:23 in landslide images by Dave Petley
NPA Satellite Mapping have completed a pre-failure analysis of the Fagraskogarfjall landslide in Iceland using InSAR data. Up to 2 metres of movement occurred in the year before the main collapse.
Tags: creep, Europe, featured, INSAR, mapping, satellite
16 November 2018 09:09 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Satellite images from Planet Labs show the aftermath of the breach of the Jinsha River landslide in Tibet. Videos also show the downstream impacts.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, Planet Labs, tibet
14 November 2018 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Breaching has started at the Jinsha River landslide in Jomda, Tibet after a 240 metre long channel was excavated to release the water.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide dam, Tibert, valley blocking landslide
12 November 2018 08:08 in landslide images by Dave Petley
On the Tibet / Sichuan border a very large landslide has occurred in Jomda County, blocking the Jinsha River. A very large lake has formed, with a volume of 469 million cubic metres. Overtopping is expected to occur today.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, tibet, valley blocking landslide
24 October 2018 06:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 19 October 2018 a major cut slope failure occurred on a highway construction site in Penang, Malaysia, killing 9 migrant workers at the foot of the slope
Tags: cut slope failure, featured, highway, malaysia, road, SE. Asia
22 October 2018 06:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Last week a very large landslide occurred on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, temporarily blocking the river. The dam has now breached.
Tags: East Asia, featured, glacier, landslide dam, Tiber
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