27 April 2021 08:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 22 April 2021 a very large landslide occurred on the Great Whale River in Quebec, Canada. Images suggest that this landslide, which is about 4 km long, was a quick clay slide.
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide report, North America, quick clay, sensitive clay
5 January 2021 20:51 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A high resolution satellite image has now been captured by Planet Labs of the Gjerdrum quick clay landslide in Norway
Tags: Europe, featured, Norway, Planet Labs, satellite image
1 January 2021 18:45 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The scale of the Gjerdrum landslide: NGI have released a helicopter video that shows the staggering extent of the quick clay failure.
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, Norway, quick clay
3 February 2015 08:02 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday afternoon a major landslide took out a highway bridge at Vestfold in Norway. This may be a quick clay landslide, and interestingly it appears that a bulldozer was working in the field below the bridge.
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, Norway, quick clay, vestfold
18 September 2013 11:13 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper, Brooks (2013), has investigated a huge quick clay landslide in Canada. It concludes that it formed about 1100 years ago in response to an earthquake
Tags: Canada, earthquake, featured, flowslide, quick clay, seismic
4 November 2010 03:47 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In April 1978 an remarkable quick clay landslide was caught in action by two amateur cameramen. A large section of this video has now appeared online.
Tags: featured, landslide video, Norway, quick claty, video
29 October 2010 10:54 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 17th October an amazing quick clay type landslide occurred at Porto Chibatão in Manaus, Brazil. The slide was caught in action by a CCTV camera. This video is featured here. It is one of the most impressive landslide events every caught on camera,
Tags: brazil, featured, landslie report, video
9 June 2023 06:55 in landslide report by Dave Petley
An official investigation highlighted that the cause of the 30 December 2020 Gjerdrum landslide in Norway was a series of small failures along the stream, probably resulting from rainfall.
Tags: Europe, featured, investigation, Norway, quick clay
11 May 2021 07:17 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
The Canadian Geological Survey has published an excellent graphic showing historical landslides that have resulted in fatalities in Canada
Tags: Canada, fatal landslides, featured, landslide map, North America
10 January 2021 18:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Cihanjuang, Indonesia & Bolzano, Italy: a tragedy in which rescuers were killed by a second landslide and a lucky escape in a rock slope failure on a hotel
Tags: Europe, featured, indonesia, Italy, landslide report, SE. Asia
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