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16 December 2022
Fifteen years of the Landslide Blog
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.
16 December 2009
daveslandslideblog is two years old today!
Very kindly AGU decided to hold a birthday lunch to celebrate the second anniversary of daveslandslideblog (actually the geobloggers lunch, but who’s counting?). I started the blog two years ago as a bit of an experiment to see what would happen, and have really enjoyed putting it together (and I have learnt a huge amount too). During this time I have made 437 posts. I put a web counter on …
Ten years ago today – the Vargas landslide disaster
Today is the tenth anniversary of probably the greatest landslide disaster in living memory – the 1999 Vargas landslide catastrophe in Venezuela. On 14th-16th December 1999 a coastal storm in Vargas triggered multiple debris flows that swept onto the densely populated river deltas below. It is estimated that 30,000 people died. The USGS summary of the event, which remains the best starting place to understand the disaster, is here, which …
11 May 2009
The Wenchuan Earthquake – one year on
No words can do justice to the first anniversary of the Wenchuan (Sichuan) earthquake, so I won’t even try. Instead I post these pictures as a silent memorial to the victims.
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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