Landslides after wildfires
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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
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.
1 October 2021 06:48 in Monitoring by Dave Petley
A new paper in the journal Landslides presents a new inventory of slow-moving landslides for the Pacific Northwest, derived from InSAR. 617 active landslides that had not previously been identified were mapped.
5 February 2021 09:40 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
A Planet Labs high resolution satellite image of the Rat Creek Washout in the Big Sur, in California, showing the burnt areas in the catchment
1 February 2021 08:30 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Rat Creek: a large post wildfire washout has been generated on State Highway 1 in the Big Sur in California
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
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
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