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23 June 2023
A new landslide susceptibility map for Central Asia
A new paper (Rosi et al. 2023) in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences presents a landslide susceptibility map for Central Asia.
24 March 2023
A remarkable landslide at Karl Marx village, in Jalpak-Tash, Kyrgyzstan
On 22 March 2023 a remarkable landslide occurred in Jalpak-Tash in Kyrgyzstan. A drone video posted to Youtube provides great footage of the landslide.
4 October 2022
The Beshbadam landslide in Kyrgyzstan
The Beshbadam landslide is a 4.4 km long failure in loess, triggered by a rain on snow event in Kyrgyzstan in the Spring of 1969.
26 March 2020
The Imom rockslide in Central Asia
The 15 million cubic metre Imom rockslide in Central Asia, one of a vast number of ancient giant landslides in this fascinating area
12 December 2019
The Kumtor gold mine landslide: high resolution Planet Labs images
Planet Labs have captured wonderful before and after SkySat images of the enormous Kumtor gold mine landslide in Kyrgyzstan last week
19 September 2019
Mine waste landslides at the Kumtor Goldmine in Kyrgyzstan
The high elevation Kumtor Goldmine in Kyrgyzstan is subject to unsual, very large, slowish moving landslides consisting of mine waste and glacial ice
30 April 2019
Bashkara Glacier: a major rock avalanche in the Caucasus last week
Satellite imagery shows that a major rock avalanche, with a runout length of about 2.7 km, occurred on the Bashkara Glacier in the Caucasus last week.
25 December 2018
Bureya River: a large landslide but not a meteorite impact in Russia
Bureya River: on 11th December 2018 a large landslide occurred in the Khabarovsk region of Russia. Speculation suggested it was a meteor impact. It wasn’t.
22 August 2018
High resolution imagery of the Pashgor debris flow in Afghanistan
Planet Labs have collected high resolution satellite imagery showing the track and impact of the debris flow that struck the village of Pashgor in Afghanistan in July 2018
15 July 2018
Panjshir province, Afghanistan: using Planet Labs imagery to interpret the deadly debris flow
On 12th July 2018 a massive debris flow struck the village of Pashgor in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, killing at least ten people. Planet Labs imagery shows that this was triggered by the collapse of an ephemeral lake about 15 km upstream
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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