8 December 2020 08:24 in landslide images by Dave Petley
Landslide potential this winter? A new video compilation of satellite images of the wildfire areas of western USA
Tags: featured, North America, satellite, Sentinel, USA, wildfire
8 October 2020 06:48 in landslide images by Dave Petley
A satellite image showing post wildfire mudslide potential in the Pacific West of the United States in winter 2020 – 2021
Tags: featured, La Nina, North America, USA, wilddire
11 August 2020 07:01 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
A new study (Rengers et al 2020) published open access in the journal Landslides examines failures in areas affected by recent wildfires in California.
Tags: california, debris flow, featured, paper, research, USA, wildfire
4 April 2020 09:21 in Review of a paper by Dave Petley
In a paper published in the journal Landslides, Wall et al. (2020) describe a large debris flow triggered by heavy rainfall after the Milli Fire in Oregon.
Tags: featured, Oregon, paper, research, USA, wildfire
21 February 2014 08:40 in Monitoring, Uncategorized by Dave Petley
The USGS has a new web-based tool for disseminating information about debris flow potential for areas affected by wildfires
Tags: california, debris flow, featured, USA, USGS, wildfire
2 May 2011 07:55 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
A brief description of a wildfire in Torridon, Scotland, over the weekend.
Tags: Scotland, wildfire
9 February 2009 08:23 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
(Updated 10th Feb to include latest casualty numbers) The extraordinary wildfires in Australia are dominating the headlines in the UK, half a world away. Wildfires are quite common events, but the number of fatalities that this particular episode has caused is really quite unusual. Below in Figure 1 I have plotted the recorded worldwide recorded number of deaths from wildfires for the period since 1980, using data from the CRED …
Tags: australia, erosion, wildfire
21 July 2022 07:21 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Last week, heavy rainfall triggered mudflows, captured on video, from the scar of the Pipeline Fire in Arizona
Tags: Arizona, featured, landslide video, mudflow, North America, USA, wildfire
16 November 2021 07:38 in landslide report by Dave Petley
An atmospheric river rainfall event on Sunday and Monday caused large numbers of landslides in British Columbia, Canada.
Tags: British Columbia, Canada, featured, highway, landslide report, road
25 October 2021 06:35 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Heavy rainfall in Nepal has triggered a large rockslide, captured on video, in Pyuthan, Nepal. The video shows a rapid, wedge-type of failure.
Tags: featured, landslide video, nepal, rockslide, South Asia, wedge
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