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5 June 2017
Another video of the terrifying Illgraben debris flow in Switzerland
Pierre Zufferey has posted to Youtube an even better video of the terrifying Illgraben debris flow of 29th May 2017, which I featured last week
17 March 2017
Koshe, Ethiopia: the worst garbage dump landslide in recent years
On Saturday 11th March a landslide at the Koshe garbage dump in Addis Ababa killed at least 115 people, most of them women and children
10 October 2016
Meru Volcano, Tanzania: the largest known continental debris avalanche
A new paper in the journal Landslides describes a 20 cubic kilometre landslide that occurred on Meru Volcano in Tanzania about 9000 years ago
11 May 2016
Large landslides in Africa in the last few days
In the last few days there has been 3 large landslides in Africa, causing significant losses in Ethiopia, Uganda and Rwanda
16 April 2014
Arroumd – an interesting rock avalanche in Morocco
In a new paper, Hughes et al. (2014) have shown that there is a the remains of a large rock avalanche at Arroumd in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Dating suggests that this might have been triggered by an earrthquake on a nearby fault about 4500 years ago.
26 June 2012
First images of the landslide in Uganda yesterday
A good quality image has appeared online that appears to show the landslide that killed about 90 people in Uganda yesterday
25 June 2012
First news of another landslide accident in Uganda
An initial report of a large and deadly landslide on the flanks of Mount Elgon in Uganda
30 August 2011
Serious landslides in Uganda
Reports are coming in of two landslides in Uganda yesterday that together have killed over 25, and possibly over 50, people.
20 May 2010
Volcanic landslide in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Whilst the Attabad landslide continues to be my major blogging preoccupation at the moment (I’m guessing you might have noticed…), of course other landslides continue to occur around the world. On16th May a slip happened on Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The reports suggest that 43 people are likely to have been killed, and a further 1,500 directly affected by this slide.Nyiragongo volcano is active, so this …
8 November 2008
Recent landslide updates
A few updates on landslide events over the last few days:1. Highway 97: various newspapers now report that the teams trying to stop the movement of the slope are making headway. The rate of movement has now slowed to about 8 mm per day (half of the rates measured early in the crisis). The drilling and blasting crews have now moved 5,000 cubic metres per day from the crown to …
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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