Weare Cliffs in Dorset – rockfall video
11 September 2015 05:30 in Coast, landslide video by Dave Petley
In Dorset, Southern England a dramatic rock topple on the progressive landslide at Weare Cliffs has been captured on video by a local fisherman
11 September 2015 05:30 in Coast, landslide video by Dave Petley
In Dorset, Southern England a dramatic rock topple on the progressive landslide at Weare Cliffs has been captured on video by a local fisherman
24 August 2015 05:00 in landslide costs, Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In my latest paper, written with Sergio Sepulveda, Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean, we look at ten years of human losses from landslides across this key area of the world.
23 August 2015 05:30 in humour by Dave Petley
Wile E. Coyote often tried to catch the Road Runner using rockfalls. Unfortunately he failed to understand how hard it is to predict landslide behaviour, especially in cartoon land.
29 April 2015 08:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
It is increasingly clear that landslides and avalanches have had a chilling impact in the Langtang area of Nepal during and after the Nepal earthquake
16 April 2015 07:40 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a recent open access paper, Lavigne et al (2005) have investigated a catastrophic landslide at the Leuwigajah dumpsite Indonesia, which killed 143 people
25 March 2015 08:14 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In a new paper, Zhang et al. examine the May 2015 Abe Barek landslide in Afghanistan, finding that it was a loess failure on an existing landslide site
29 January 2015 08:04 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In Northern India, landsliding is occurring upslope of the Pakyong airport construction site, which has used extensive slope cutting during construction
3 October 2014 08:45 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper to be published in Geology reports on the use of dating techniques to evaluate the return periods of prehistoric earthquake triggered rockfalls near Christchurch in New Zealand
24 August 2014 22:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The level of the lake behind the Sunkoshi landslide dam shows no signs of reducing, despite extensive efforts by the army to widen the channels
15 August 2014 22:04 in landslide report, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall is bringing continued landslide problems in Nepal and northern India, compounding the difficulties facing the Nepal Army at the Sunkoshi site
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