17 May 2019 11:08 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Yesterday a second, probably even larger, rock avalanche occurred on Joffre Peak in British Columbia in Canada, following the first event on Sunday.
Tags: Canada, featured, landslide report, North America, rock avalanche
4 March 2019 06:24 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Three videos have been posted on Youtube showing a very large, very dramatic rockslope failure near to Thanpal Dam in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir.
Tags: featured, India, Kashmir, landslide video, South Asia
25 February 2019 06:58 in Research project, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The valley-blocking Baige landslide, Tibet in October 2018: an interesting analysis of seismic data to determine rockslide behaviour
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, rockslide, seismic, tibet
18 February 2019 07:23 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The runout of the one cubic kilometre Daguangbao landslide was controlled by complex processes in a basal layer that may have been just 0.1 mm thick
Tags: china, earthquake, East Asia, featured, rock avalanche, rockslide, Wenchuan
13 February 2019 07:45 in Research project by Dave Petley
A new paper published in Landslides examines movement of the Su Village (Sucun) landslide in China, which killed 27 people in 2016, using InSAR techniques
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, INSAR, monitoring, radar, warning
4 January 2019 10:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
2018 will be remembered as a year of extraordinary landslides. This is my list of the ten most important landslide events of 2018
Tags: featured, global, important, landslide impacts, landslides
21 December 2018 10:59 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The ancient, very large Xuelongnang rockslide and quake lake in Tibet, which was probably triggered by an earthquake 2100 years ago.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, research, tibet, valley blocking landslide
25 November 2018 23:44 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have captured a high resolution Skysat image of the remains of the valley-blocking Yarlung Tsangpo landslide in Tibet
Tags: East Asia, feaured, glacier, Planet Labs, Tiber, valley blocking landslide
22 November 2018 08:23 in landslide images by Dave Petley
NPA Satellite Mapping have completed a pre-failure analysis of the Fagraskogarfjall landslide in Iceland using InSAR data. Up to 2 metres of movement occurred in the year before the main collapse.
Tags: creep, Europe, featured, INSAR, mapping, satellite
12 November 2018 08:08 in landslide images by Dave Petley
On the Tibet / Sichuan border a very large landslide has occurred in Jomda County, blocking the Jinsha River. A very large lake has formed, with a volume of 469 million cubic metres. Overtopping is expected to occur today.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, tibet, valley blocking landslide
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