25 June 2015 07:18 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A landslide on the Daning River in China yesterday triggered a series of tsunami waves that sank 13 vessels, mostly fishing boats
Tags: china, dam, East Asia, hydro-electric, landslide report, Yangtze
2 June 2015 06:15 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Youtube now has an amazing video of a landslide tsunami, generated by a very large blast-induced riverbank failure
Tags: featured, landslide tsunami, riverbank, video
30 January 2014 18:52 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Wednesday a highly localised tsunami struck the village of Nord-Statland in Norway, causing enormous damage. The cause was probably a submarine landslide.
Tags: featured, landslide report, Norway, tsunami
13 December 2013 02:13 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new paper should end the scare that a landslide in the Canary Islands could cause a megatsunami that would devastate coast areas in Europe & America
Tags: featured, paper, review, Spain, tsunami
30 October 2012 00:01 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A new paper by Kremer et al. (2012) documents a landslide induced tsunami in Lake Geneva in AD563. The modelled wave was 8 km high when it inundated the city.
Tags: featured, lake, Switzerland, tsunami
20 July 2012 08:36 in landslide video by Dave Petley
A remarkable new video of a collapsing glacier from Greenland elegantly illustrates the processes through which landslides generate tsunamis
Tags: collapse, featured, glacier, rockfall, video
29 June 2011 17:43 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A short description and video of an intriguing “mini-tsunami” off the south coast of England on Monday. Reports attribute it to a submarine landslide, but more information is needed to ascertain whether this is really the case.
Tags: featured, submarine landslide, tsunami, UK
27 October 2010 08:46 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Indonesia is today trying to deal simultaneously with two substantial natural hazards of a rather different nature. The earthquake on Monday 25th October triggered a localised tsunami in the Mentawai islands, close to the epicentre, the Reuters Alertnet reports killed 108 people and has left a further 502 people missing. The data on the earthquake available on the USGS website suggest that this was a Mw=7.7 event at a depth of …
Tags: earthquake, eruption, indonesia, Mentawai, Merapi, tsunami, volcano
23 March 2010 05:26 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The State of the Planet blog, which is the blog of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, reports on an ongoing investigation of the tsunami that killed a small number of people to the west of Port-au-Prince (image below from the National Geographic). The research has involved drilling cores into the sediment on the sea floor near to the tsunami. Their initial analysis suggests that the tsunami was caused by …
Tags: Haiti, submarine landslide, tsunami
3 May 2009 20:49 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The BBC are running a slightly strange story today about the possibility that the News York area was hit by a tsunami about 2,300 years ago. Given that by far the most likely source of a tsunami is a submarine landslide, this is of some interest. The odd part of this is the timing of the story – I cannot quite work out why it has popped up again now. …
Tags: impact event, New York, tsunami, USA
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