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3 July 2018
Shimian County: a freak rockfall accident in China
On 30th June a rockfall caused a freak fatal accident in Shimian County in Sichuan Province, China. The boulder penetrated and became wedged in the cab of a coach carrying 38 people, killing the driver.
2 July 2018
Guang’an: a dramatic retaining wall failure video
Yesterday a large retaining wall failed on a tall slope in Guang’an, Sichuan Province, China. This event was captured from a number of angles on video, now posted online
15 May 2018
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review
The research legacy of the Wenchuan Earthquake: a new review Ten years ago the most destructive seismic event in a generation, the Wenchuan Earthquake, struck the Longmenshan in Siichuan Province in China. I covered the event on this blog – indeed on 12th May 2008, at 07:27 UT, 29 minutes after the Earthquake occurred, I wrote: “it is reasonable to assume that this earthquake will have triggered large numbers of …
11 May 2018
Mabian Yi: a massive landslide in China caught on video
On Saturday 5th May a spectacular landslide at Mabian Yi in Sichuan Province in China was caught on video. Fortunately there were no casualties
4 May 2018
Chongqing: a dramatic rockfall video from China last month
The Chinese news agency Xinhua has posted a dramatic rockfall video from Chongqing in China on 9th April 2018. Despite two boulders very nearly hitting a pick-up truck no-one was killed or injured
30 April 2018
A surprising but important discovery on the timing of cracking-sliding failures landslides in China
A new paper (Li et al. 2018) in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences makes a surprising but important discovery on the timing of “cracking-sliding failure” loess landslides in China
23 April 2018
The Sucun rockslide in Lishui, China in 2016
In September 2016 the Sucun rockslide killed 27 people in Zhejiang Province, China. This landslide has now been analysed in a paper published in Landslides by Ouyang et al (2018)
15 February 2018
The evolution of post-seismic debris flows
A paper recently published in Engineering Geology (Fan et al. 2018) provides fascinating insights into the evolution of post-seismic debris flows, based on a study in the Wenchuan earthquake area of China
30 January 2018
Three landslide videos
It has been a while since I posted any footage, so here are three landslide videos, including one showing a very narrow escape for the passengers on a bus
27 September 2017
Heifangtai terrace: spectacular loess flowslides in Gansu Province, China
In a new paper in the journal Engineering Geology, Qi et al. (2017) describe spectacular loess landslides from the Heifangtai terrace in China
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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