23 October 2018 06:26 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large valley blocking landslide occurred at Bolo Township in Jomda County, Tibet on 11th October, causing 20,000 people to be evacuated.
Tags: East Asia, featured, landslide dam, landslide report, tibet
24 July 2018 05:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Planet Labs have captured a high resolution SkySat image of the Fagraskogarfjall landslide in Iceland. It shows the complex hummocky topography of the landslide deposit.
Tags: Europe, featured, hummocks, Iceland, Planet Labs, satellite, SkySat
26 June 2018 06:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Sunday a landslide occurred at Waioeka Gorge in New Zealand. The landslide, a wedge failure, was captured on video by Michael Tabudravu, a motorist who was driving on State Highway 2
Tags: featured, landslide video, New Zealand, wedge
4 May 2018 07:13 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The Chinese news agency Xinhua has posted a dramatic rockfall video from Chongqing in China on 9th April 2018. Despite two boulders very nearly hitting a pick-up truck no-one was killed or injured
Tags: china, Chongqing, featured, landslide video, rockfall
2 March 2018 08:17 in landslide images by Dave Petley
The European Space Agency satellite Sentinel 2 has collected good images of at least some of the Papua New Guinea landslide dams
Tags: earthquake, featured, landslide dams, Papua New Guinea, satellite images, SE. Asia, sentinal, valley blocking landslide
28 February 2018 08:40 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
An emerging crisis? Video and images are emerging showing multiple valley blocking landslides in the Papua New Guinea highlands
Tags: earthquake, featured, Papua New Guinea, planet, satellite, SE. Asia
27 February 2018 07:06 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Information is slowly emerging about landslides triggered by the Mw=7.5 Papua New Guinea earthquake. As expected, landslides appear to have been a significant factor in the losses caused by the shaking
Tags: earthquake, landslide report, Papua New Guinea, SE. Asia
2 February 2018 08:30 in landslide images by Dave Petley
As part of our Newton Fund project, I spent a few days in January looking at the giant landslides of the Maipo Valley in Chile. These are some of my photos of these amazing rockslides and rock avalanches
Tags: Chile, featured, landslide images, rock avalanche, rockslide, South America
6 October 2017 06:49 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Pascal Sirguey has very kindly provided additional images to show the rockslope failure that is developing above Murchison Glacier in New Zealand
Tags: creep, featured, landslide report, New Zealand, rockslope failure
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
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