by Dave Petley
4 August 2022 06:47 in Mining by Dave Petley
On 26 July 2016 a 3.1 million cubic metre landslide occurred at a high wall coal mine at Fushun in China, causing extensive damage. The failure is documented in a new paper (Sun et al. 2022) in the journal Landslides.
by Dave Petley
5 May 2022 06:48 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Wednesday 4 May 2022 an interesting landslide occurred at a construction site on the E6 highway near to Malvik in Norway.
by Dave Petley
14 March 2022 07:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 10 March 2022 a rainfall-triggered urban landslide killed four people, and injured another individual in Malaysia. Google Earth imagery suggests that this landslide may have occurred on an engineered slope.
by Dave Petley
7 February 2022 08:00 in landslide images, landslide report by Dave Petley
Google StreetView has imaged the aftermath of an unusual embankment failure near to Northampton at a warehouse construction site in the UK
by Dave Petley
11 January 2022 08:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On 8 January 2022 a significant landslide occurred at the Pau Branco iron ore mine in Brazil, operated by the French company Vallourec.
by Dave Petley
13 December 2021 08:29 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
An interesting video discusses modes of failure of retaining walls
by Dave Petley
18 May 2021 15:26 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Scientific Reports (Aslan et al. 2021) describes the actively moving Kara-Bogaz-Gol megaslide in Kazakhstan. At 10 cubic kilometres this is the largest active landslide described to date.
by Dave Petley
7 May 2021 14:33 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The March 2011 landslides in Antonina and Morretes, Brazil, which were triggered by unusually intense rainfall.
by Dave Petley
26 April 2021 07:25 in landslide video by Dave Petley
The extraordinary 21 October 1993 Pantai Remis landslide in Malaysia: an upscaled video has been posted to Youtube.
by Dave Petley
23 April 2021 14:17 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
The 13 October 2020, deadly landslide in Phong Dien, Vietnam, which was triggered by an extraordinary rainfall event
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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