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19 October 2008
A strange report from Nigeria…
The Nigerian newspaper “The Punch” has been carrying a quite strange and intriguing story over the last few days regarding an apparently huge landslide in the Awgu area (i.e. at about 6.0046N, 7.4024E). The key points of the story (from the Punch) are: “Residents of Ugwueme, Umuhu, Ugulesi Awgu and Ezinese Mgbidi communities in Awgu Local Government Area, Enugu State could not believe their eyes when they visited their farmland …
17 October 2008
Retaining wall collapse, Uganda
On Tuesday morning a collapse occurred in a retaining wall being constructed for the foundations of a new tower block in the capital of Uganda, Kampala. Two images have been published online of the failure, which buried nine workers, killing eight of them: Monitor online image of the Pensions Towers collapse site New Vision image of the Pensions Towers collapse site Collapses like this are now quite rare in more …
30 August 2008
Submarine landslide in southern Africa?
The award for the strangest landslide story of the week goes to this one, from southern Africa. Late last week reports started to emerge of strange tidal patterns around the southern Cape of Africa (Fig. 1). Fig. 1: Google Earth image of the southern Cape of Africa, showing the location of St Helena Bay and Plattenburg Bay. In particular, on 21st August at about 8:45 am (local time) a series …
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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