by Dave Petley
18 April 2019 08:10 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A new video posted to Youtube shows a debris flow cascading over a cliff above a mountain road, with a trapped 4×4. The location and timing are unclear.
by Dave Petley
28 February 2019 08:25 in Conference by Dave Petley
The organisers of the Second JTC-1 Workshop on Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides have placed the proceedings of the meeting online
by Dave Petley
10 December 2018 06:20 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A Youtube video of a near-miss from a large, tabular, highly mobile boulder at Spantik basecamp in northern Pakistan in August 2018
by Dave Petley
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.
by Dave Petley
24 August 2018 06:17 in Database, landslide costs, Melanie by Dave Petley
Melanie Froude and I have just published in NHESS a new analysis of global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016 inclusive. It shows that losses from landslides caused by humans are increasing with time
by Dave Petley
2 May 2018 07:15 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have now captured high quality imagery of the 3 km long Ultar Glacier rock and ice avalanche, which killed three people in northern Pakistan last month
by Dave Petley
27 April 2018 07:27 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In a new paper just published in Landslides, Li et al. (2018) use a shaking table model to show that the Newmark displacement method overestimates the critical acceleration value for earthquake induced landslides
by Dave Petley
16 March 2018 17:21 in Conference by Dave Petley
The second JTC-1 workshop will be held from 3rd to 5th December 2018 in Hong Kong. The topic will be: Triggering and Propagation of Rapid Flow-like Landslides
by Dave Petley
2 January 2018 09:50 in Earthquake-induced landslide, landslide report, Planet Labs by Dave Petley
The M=6.4 17th November 2017 earthquake in Tibet has triggered multiple landslides on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, triggering fears of a catastrophic flood in India
by Dave Petley
23 October 2017 06:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Saturday a major landslide on a large cut slope at a construction site in Tanjung Bungah in Penang, Malaysia killed eleven workers
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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