17 December 2018 07:05 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
At 12:46 pm local time yesterday a shallow M=5.7 earthquake struck Sichuan Province in China, triggering at least one large landslide, at Luopo village
20 April 2018 06:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
More information is now available about the Castell de Mur landslide in Spain on 16th April, including drone images, before and after photographs and the seismic traces
Tags: Europe, featured, landslide report, rockslide, Spain, topple
29 August 2017 07:10 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Yesterday the Zhangjiawan landslide, a massive rockslope collapse in Guizhou,China,caused 35 fatalities. The landslide was caught on a remarkable video.
Tags: china, East Asia, featured, landslide report, landslide video, rockslide, rockslope, topple
25 July 2017 06:43 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two good new landslide videos have been posted on Youtube: a topple from Pandoh and a wedge failure from elsewhere in Himachal Pradesh in India
Tags: featured, India, landslide video, rockfall, South Asia, topple, wedge
17 July 2017 06:26 in Melanie by Dave Petley
Two dramatic new landslide videos have appeared online from China: a rapid earthflow in Liuzhou and a riverbank collapse from Chamdo
Tags: china, earthflow, featured, landslide video, riverbank
13 April 2017 23:17 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Two new landslide videos have appeared on Youtube; one from Shimla showing a large slide triggered by construction, and the other on a highway in Idaho, USA
Tags: construction, featured, highway, India, landslide report, landslide video, North America, road, South Asia, USA
25 April 2016 07:26 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Espirito Santo rock joint collapses There is an extraordinary video on Facebook showing massive collapses of sheeting joints in Espirito Santo Brazil. I cannot embed the video, but really recommend that you take a look. This is the moment of collapse: . The collapse occurred in Pancas County of Espirito Santo in an area of granite massifs. The video was posted by Heinrich Theodor Frank, who provides the following comment …
Tags: brazil, china, East Asia, featured, joint, rockfall, South America, video
8 February 2016 08:12 in mitigation by Dave Petley
The recent Taiwan earthquake and the Samarco tailings dam failure both illustrate the critical role of individual responsibility in disaster risk reduction
Tags: earthquake, East Asia, featured, responsibility, taiwan
17 January 2016 08:27 in landslide images by Dave Petley
In September 2010 a M=8.8 earthquake struck Arauco in Chile. These landslides are part of our Newton Fund project on earthquake induced landslides in Chile.
Tags: Chile, earthquake, featured, landslide images, South America, tsunami
2 December 2015 07:37 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A video has appeared on Youtube showing a very large, complex rock topple near the town of Kfarnabrakh in the Shouf Mountains of Lebanon
Tags: featured, landslide report, Lebanon, Middle East
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