16 February 2023 07:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The fatal landslide at Muriwai in New Zealand, triggered by Cyclone Gabrielle, occurred in a similar location to a fatal slip in 1965.
Tags: Cyclone gabrielle, featured, landslide report, New Zealand, tropical cyclone, urban landslide
24 October 2022 06:07 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Barry Arm landslide in Alaska: increased rates of movement in recent weeks has led to new warnings to people on or near to the fjords in the area.
Tags: Alaska, featured, landslide report, North America, rockslope failure
4 October 2022 06:44 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Beshbadam landslide is a 4.4 km long failure in loess, triggered by a rain on snow event in Kyrgyzstan in the Spring of 1969.
Tags: Central Asia, featured, Kyrgyzstan, loess
3 October 2022 06:55 in Mining by Dave Petley
Shuiliandong: a paper in the journal Landslides (Ma et al, 2022) highlights an example of a landslide triggered by underground coal mining
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, mine, mining, research, review of a paper
20 September 2022 07:04 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Tanyang: an excellent video documentary has been compiled by the Save the Hills NGO about the impact of a landslide on a mountain village in northern India
Tags: community. landslide impacts, drone, featyred, India, S. Asia, Save the Hills
8 February 2022 08:13 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
New Planet Labs satellite imagery allows a better understanding of the deadly 31 January 2022 mudflow in the La Gasca suburb of Quito, Ecuador
Tags: Ecuador, featured, mudflow, Planet Labs, satellite imagery, South America
22 December 2021 07:56 in Mining by Dave Petley
There are reports this morning of yet another fatal jade mine landslide in Myanmar, with indications of up to 100 deaths
Tags: featured, Jade, landslide report, mine, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
27 October 2021 06:33 in Mining by Dave Petley
Yesterday the Welsh Government released the results of an analysis of coal waste tips across South Wales. A total of 2,456 tips have been identified, of which 327 have been determined to have the potential to cause risk to safety.
Tags: coal, coal waste, featured, hazard, mine, mining, mitigation, risk
9 July 2021 08:27 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The start of the 2021 summer monsoon in Nepal has brought unusual levels of rainfall. So far at least 27 people have been killed in landslides
Tags: featured, landslide report, monsoon, nepal, South Asia
11 June 2021 07:57 in Landslide processes, Research project by Dave Petley
A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya: our new paper explaining the sequence of events has been published in the journal Science
Tags: Chamoli, featured, India, paper, research, South Asia
Recent Comments