9 May 2019 07:17 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new study in the journal Engineering Geology indicates that a key control on rock avalanche mobility is the characteristics of the material along the path
Tags: featured, mobility, research, rock avalanche, runout
30 April 2019 06:11 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Satellite imagery shows that a major rock avalanche, with a runout length of about 2.7 km, occurred on the Bashkara Glacier in the Caucasus last week.
Tags: Central Asia, featured, rock avalanche, Russia, satallite
14 December 2018 07:46 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The Nyixoi Chongco rock avalanche; a spectacular, very large ancient landslide in a tectonically active area of the Tibetan Plateau
Tags: East Asia, featured, paper, research, rock avalanche, tibet
4 January 2018 07:37 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper just published in the journal Landslides, Gauthier et al. 2017 use a 3D reconstruction to estimate that the tsunamigenic June 2017 Karrat Fjord rock avalanche in Greenland had a volume of 58 million cubic metres.
Tags: featured, Greenland, landslide report, paper, research, rockslide, tsunami
23 December 2017 09:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Images of the Villa Santa Lucia rock avalanche, inclduing prefailure views of the source and post failure views of the track, are now online
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide report, rock avalanche, South America
12 September 2017 22:12 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper (Coe et al. 2017) strongly suggests that the cluster of 24 rock avalanches since 1984 in S. Alaska may be associated with rock permafrost degradation
Tags: Alaska, featured, North America, permafrost, review of a paper, rock avalanche, USA
30 August 2017 06:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Planet Labs satellite imagery is now available showing the aftermath of the Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche in Switzerland, which killed eight people
Tags: Alps, Europe, featured, Planet Labs, rock avalanche, Swizerland
25 August 2017 01:08 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs imagery has captured the enormous Pizzo Cengalo rock avalanche, which has left eight people missing in Switzerland, in motion
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide video, rock avalanche, satellite, Switzerland
22 June 2017 06:42 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Friends from NGU, NGI, IIT Kharagpurhttp://www.iitkgp.ac.in/ and WIHG have discovered a recent large rock avalanche in the Yumthang valley of Sikkim in northern India
Tags: featured, India, landslide report, rock avalanche, South Asia
3 July 2016 08:52 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Tuesday 28th June a 150 million tonne landslide, the Lamplugh Glacier rock avalanche, occurred in Alaska. This enormous landslide travelled 10 km across the ice.
Tags: Alaska, featured, glacier, North America, rock avalanche, USA
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