10 September 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Colorado Geological Survey report into the West Salt Creek landslide in Mesa County includes recommendations on the management of hazards both at this site and in the local area
Tags: Colorado, featured, hazard managment, landslide report, USA
9 September 2015 05:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Colorado Geological Survey has produced a detailed report on the 2014 West Salt Creek landslide, which killed three men. Surprisingly, this was a high mobility rock avalanche that initiated as a rotational landslide.
Tags: featured, investigation, landslide report, mobility, rock avalanche, rotational landslide, runout
12 August 2015 15:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Early on Wednesday morning a major landslide at a vanadium mine in Shanyang County in Shaanxi Province China killed about 60 people. This is the latest in a long catalogue of mining-related landslides in China. Such disasters should be avoidable with proper slope management.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, mine, mining
29 July 2015 07:32 in landslide video by Dave Petley
In the last 24 hours two tremendous new landslide videos have appeared online, one from Japan and one from Taiwan
Tags: East Asia, featured, japan, landslide video, taiwan
16 May 2015 08:19 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Some satellite imagery is now available via Digital Globe of the area affected by the second Nepal earthquake on Tuesday. The images show many landslides
6 May 2015 10:30 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
The EWF team, working with the British Geological Survey, have provided an update on landslide hazard after the Gorkha earthquake, including a landslide map
Tags: earthquake, featured, gorkha, nepal, South Asia, valley blocking landslide
12 November 2014 08:15 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The creep rate of the Mannen landslide in Norway has now declined to 2 mm per day. The risk level has been reduced from red to yellow, but the landslide still requires monitoring
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, monitoring, Norway, rockslide
7 November 2014 09:59 in landslide report by Dave Petley
An roundup of recent landslides, including an update on the Mannen landslide in Norway, a fatal landslide in Switzerland and a rockslide in Canada that has left a train driver missing
Tags: Canada, featured, lanslide report, Norway, railway, rockslide, Switzerland
15 July 2014 10:44 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Over the weekend I visited the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. This a selection of images of landslides and rockfalls that I saw along the way.
Tags: featured, landslide images, Lofoten, Norway, rockfall, rockslide
18 April 2014 08:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In the last week Pathe News has uploaded 88,000 archive news films from 1910 to 1970. Some of these films feature the aftermath of landslides.
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