30 August 2008 03:16 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The award for the strangest landslide story of the week goes to this one, from southern Africa. Late last week reports started to emerge of strange tidal patterns around the southern Cape of Africa (Fig. 1). Fig. 1: Google Earth image of the southern Cape of Africa, showing the location of St Helena Bay and Plattenburg Bay. In particular, on 21st August at about 8:45 am (local time) a series …
Tags: 2008, Africa, earthquake, tsunami
29 May 2019 06:04 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
In a new paper, Zhu et al. (2019) report the discovery of the giant Baiyun–Liwan submarine slide, which covers an area of c.40,000 sq km in the South China Sea
Tags: featured, South China Sea, submarine landslide, tsunami
4 February 2022 07:56 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On 16 October 1979 a landslide in fill at Nice airport triggered a massive submarine landslide and tsunami, which killed at least 8 people.
Tags: Europe, featured, France, submarine landslide, tsunami
16 December 2020 07:32 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A massive rockslope failure and 13 km long debris flow near to Bute Inlet in British Columbia, Canada in late November
Tags: Canada, featured, glacier, landslide report, North America, Planet Labs, video
4 September 2019 06:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands In a paper just published in the journal Landslides, Blahůt et al. (2019) describe the compilation of a new global database of giant landslides on volcanic islands. This database is hosted on the website of the Institute of Rock Structure & Mechanics. The authors note that “the records can be downloaded as a spreadsheet or as a kml file for interrogation …
Tags: database, dataset, featured, research, volcanic landslide, volcano
3 January 2019 08:49 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Anak Krakatau: @planetlabs have captured excellent imagery, including a high resolution SkySat view, of the aftermath of the landslide
Tags: featured, indonesia, Krakatau, Planet Labs, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
26 December 2018 11:51 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Sentinel-1 imagery suggests that the landslide that triggered the tsunami on Anak Krakatau appears to have been a large-scale flank collapse. Unfortunately it is difficult to ascertain the current situation on the volcano
Tags: featured, flank collapse, indonesia, landslide report, SE. Asia, tsunami, volcano
3 October 2018 07:59 in Earthquake-induced landslide by Dave Petley
DigitalGlobe has released high resolution imagery of two of the the Palu landslides, triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake last week
Tags: coseismic landslide, earthquake, featured, indonesia, Palu, SE. Asia, sulawesi
6 February 2018 07:43 in Landslide processes by Dave Petley
A paper just published in Geo-Marine Letters, Conway and Barrie 2018 – describes a new landslide type – the submarine sackungen – observed in the flanks of Douglas Channel in British Columbia
Tags: Canada, featured, North America, sackungen, submarine landslide
1 August 2017 07:06 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A 50 cm high tsunami struck the Caribbean coast of Colombia at Santa Marta on 19th July 2017. The most likely cause was a submarine landslide.
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