3 October 2017 06:31 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
Murchison Hut: a skiers and climbers refuge closed by a large, progressive rockslide in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in South Island, New Zealand
Tags: featured, hazard, landslide report, New Zealand, progressive landslide, risk, satellite
1 September 2017 06:40 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Extraordinary high resolution video footage has been posted on Liveleak showing the initiation of the Zhangjiawan rockslide in China on Monday
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide video, rockslide, toplle
25 July 2017 06:43 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two good new landslide videos have been posted on Youtube: a topple from Pandoh and a wedge failure from elsewhere in Himachal Pradesh in India
Tags: featured, India, landslide video, rockfall, South Asia, topple, wedge
22 March 2017 07:49 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in Nature Astronomy, Pajola et al (2017) describe a 22,000 cubic metre rockfall on Comet 67P, observed by the ESA Rosetta Mission
Tags: astronomy, comet, featured, planet, rockfall, space
9 February 2017 08:14 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper in landslide, my colleague Lis Bowman and her co-authors describe the reactivation by bridge construction of the Dongla landslide in China
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide repoprt, paper, reactivation, research
11 October 2016 07:17 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Sixth Tone has published two articles evaluating the missed opportunities to prevent the Sucun landslide disaster in China, which killed 27 people last week
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, hazard, landslide report, risk
5 October 2016 06:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A major post-glacial rockslide is developing on the flanks of the Moosfluh above the Aletsch Glacier in Canton du Valais in Swizerland
Tags: Alps, Europe, featured, landslide report, progressive failure, rockslide, Switzerland
25 February 2016 07:45 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper, Wolter et al (2015) have re-examined the 1963 Vajont slide, proposing a new chronology for the evolution of the landslide that caused the disaster.
Tags: dam, disaster, Europe, featured, Italy, review of a paper, Vajont
22 November 2015 06:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
In the last few days an interesting landslide has developed in Vasquez Canyon in California, destroying a road
Tags: california, featured, landslide report, USA
4 November 2015 13:32 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a new paper, we examine the distribution of landslides from two earthquakes in New Zealand to see if hillslope preconditioning – the idea that the legacy of one trigger event can influence slope behaviour ins subsequent event – occurred. The results suggest that this might have been a factor in the area affected by both earthquakes,
Tags: earthquake, featured, New Zealand, paper, review
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