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20 February 2014
Breaking news: a very large landslide in Alaska on Sunday
Using seismic data, Colin Stark and colleagues have detected a new, very large landslide in Alaska on Sunday. At about 68 million tonnes, this may have been the largest natural landslide since 2010
29 January 2014
The Keystone Canyon avalanche in Alaska, and its large ice-dammed lake
The Keystone Canyon avalanche, a very large snow and ice avalanche on the Richardson Highway in Alaska has blocked the road and impounded a lake
31 August 2013
Another large rock avalanche in Alaska
Colin Stark and Goran Ekstrom have detected another spectacular rock avalanche in Alaska. It occurred on 25th July near to Mount Jarvis.
14 May 2013
How to escape a landslide
In Alaska on Sunday a couple survived a landslide by outrunning it. It is extremely rare to survive a landslide in this way
16 July 2012
Stunning images of four recent landslides
Remarkable video and photographic imagery has emerged this weekend of the aftermath of landslides in Alaska, Canada and Japan
12 July 2012
The Mount Lituya landslide in Alaska – an update
New images have emerged of the Mount Lituya landslide in Alaska last month. It was a very large, very long runout rock avalanche
14 June 2012
Another very large landslide – this time on the Canada / Alaska border – can you help?
Seismic instruments picked up a large landslide on the border between Canada and Alaska on 11th June. Can you help us to find it?
24 May 2012
Another teleseismic landslide – this time in Alaska on Monday 21st May 2012
Using seismic data, Colin Stark identified a large landslide that occurred in remote Alaska on Tuesday. Landsat imaged it a few hours later.
14 April 2009
A round-up of some recent landslide events
I thought that it was time to provide a round-up of some landslide events from around the world: 1. A narrow escape in AustraliaThanks to Remke van Dam for bringing this one to my attention. This Australian family had a pretty lucky escape last week when a pair of large rocks struck their car (image from here): 2. A road-blocking rockfall in AlaskaThanks to John Fritz for this one. In …
9 July 2008
Lituya Bay – 50 years on
Fifty years ago today, on the 9th July 1958, one of the most remarkable landslide events in recorded history occurred in Alaska. This was the Lituya Bay landslide, a large rockslide that collapsed catastrophically into a fjord in Alaska. Whilst the landslide itself was comparably unexceptional, though very large, the tsunami that it triggered most certainly was not. Lituya Bay is located in the very southwest of Alaska (Figure 1). …
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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