27 July 2010 19:10 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Thanks to Mauri McSaveney for doing the detective work to track down the location of this slide. The village in question is located at 29.320 N, 102.726E (put the following into Google Maps: 29.319631, 102.725816). This is the pre-landslide perspective image from Google Earth: Meanhile Xinhua has a new set of images, of which these two are the best: The community on the right of the second image was very …
Tags: china, flow, landslide report
11 March 2010 16:45 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Yesterday I gave a talk to the Manchester branches of the Geographical Association and the Geological Association on the causes of the Sichuan (Wenchuan) earthquake disaster. As usual I promised to make my slides available via Authorstream. You should be able to download the presentation as well as viewing it below.: 10_03 Manchester 1 http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=346062_634038962411343750 See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations
Tags: earthquake, powerpoint, presentation file, sichuan, Wenchuan
14 October 2009 19:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is a 45 minute presentation that I gave today at a seminar for sixth form (High School) teachers on the impact of the Wenchuan (Sichuan) Earthquake in May 2008. You should be able to view or download the presentation below. Please feel free to use it as appropriate for educational purposes, but please acknowledge me. Teachers First Talk 14th October 2009 http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=254450_633911254812360000 See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload …
Tags: ancient landslide, china, earthquake, education, images, presentation file, Wenchuan
22 May 2009 09:15 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Today there was a session on the Wenchuan Earthquake at the Sinorock conference in Hong Kong. I was invited to participate in the panel discussion, for which I put together the following presentation highlighting a few critical issues: http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=191786_633785600804989257Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Dr_Dave You should be able to review the presentation above or to download it the Powerpoint file if you wish (from here if necessary). I will write a …
Tags: china, earthquake, earthquake conference, roundtable, sichuan, Wenchuan
13 May 2009 07:47 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Driving home from work last night, and bored with listening to endless discussions on the radio about the ways in which politicians use the system to personal gain, I started pondering what we have learnt from the Wenchuan Earthquake a year ago. The media yesterday understandably focused on collapsed schools. We have known for years that critical buildings in earthquake zones need seismic reinforcement, so this is hardly new. These …
Tags: china, earthquake, sichuan
30 March 2009 05:08 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the fifth and last part of my photographic description of damage caused by the Sichuan earthquake. The other parts are as follows: Part 1: Beichuan townPart 2: The Tangjiashan landslidePart 3: Hanwang townPart 4: The Mianyuanhe areaPart 5 (this part): The Xingyiu area This final section shows images from a visit to the Xingyiu area, which is quite close to the main epicentral region. In this area the …
Tags: china, earthquake, images, quake, sichuan
28 March 2009 02:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the fourth part of my photographic description of damage caused by the Sichuan earthquake. The other parts are as follows: Part 1: Beichuan townPart 2: The Tangjiashan landslidePart 3: Hanwang townPart 4 (this part): The Mianyuanhe areaPart 5: The Xingyiu area First a location map. The Mianyuanhe area is a fairly large river valley that cuts through the Longmen mountain chain, with its mouth as Hanwang as shown …
Tags: china, earthquake, historic landslide, images, sichuan
27 March 2009 07:13 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
This is the third of my five sets of images of the impact of the Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China. The first two are as follows:Part 1: Beichuan town Part 2: The Tangjiashan landslide Part 3 (this part): Hanwang townPart 4: The Mianyuanhe areaPart 5: The Xingyiu area In this set of images I feature the town of Hanwang, on the edge of the mountains. The location of Hanwang is …
Tags: china, earthquake, images, sichuan
29 January 2009 09:00 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At recent edition of Science carries a really intriguing review piece that examines the triggers of the Wenchuan earthquake. Although earthquake triggering is really beyond the scope of this blog, the huge number of devastating landslides that the earthquake induced means that this is of interest. The article can be read online here. The article has emerged from work undertaken at two different locations. Christian Klose of Columbia University presented …
Tags: china, earthquake, reservoir, seismic data
27 November 2008 12:50 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Tomorrow (Friday) I am giving a talk at Hazards Day in Manchester for AS/A2 students (year 12 and Year 13 in the UK system). The topic is the hazards associated with the Wenchuan (Sichuan) Earthquake in China. I have uploaded the file below: http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?p=113874_633633648527967500Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Dr_Dave This talk will be repeated at an event in London on Thursday 4th December.
Tags: china, disaster, earthquake, hazards, landslide, sichuan
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