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6 March 2023
Luccombe: the individual impact of coastal landslides
The BBC has an article about a man in Luccombe on the Isle of Wight, whose house is threatened by a rapidly developing coastal landslide.
14 December 2022
Palos Verdes Estates: a coastal cliff landslide captured on video
On 9 December 2022 a landslide occurred on a cliff at Palos Verdes Estates in California. The failure was captured on video from a news helicopter.
20 April 2021
The 19 April 2021 coastal landslide at Nefyn Bay in North Wales
The 19 April 2021 coastal landslide at Nefyn Bay in North Wales, which was caught on a brilliant video by a woman on the beach.
29 January 2021
An interesting example of coastal erosion at Happisburgh in Norfolk
An interesting example of coastal erosion at Happisburgh in Norfolk, driven by the recent rainfall from Storm Christoph
1 June 2020
Eastchurch – a coastal landslide in Kent, SE England
Two coastal landslides at Eastchurch in Kent, SE England have caused serious damage to a house located close to the edge of the cliff.
7 January 2020
Trimingham: a large landslide in complex glacial deposits
On 6 January 2020 a large coastal landslide occurred at Trimingham in north Norfolk, eastern England. This is an area of complex glaciotectonic deposits that control the style of landsliding.
9 April 2018
Santa Cruz island: rockfalls during the M=5.3 earthquake in California on Thursday
Photographs taken from boats showed coastal cliff rockfalls on Santa Cruz island in California during the M=5.4 earthquake on Thursday 5th April
6 January 2017
Collapsing Arctic coastlines
In a paper just published in Nature Climate Change, Michael Fritz and colleagues have highlighted the environmental impacts of collapsing Arctic coastlines.
8 November 2016
Recent increases in the retreat rate of chalk cliffs in southern England
A new study published in PNAS has examined the long term retreat rate of chalk coastal cliffs in S. England, finding that the erosion rate has increased by an order of magnitude in modern times
13 August 2016
Freshwater: a nice landslide video from the Isle of Wight
Freshwater, Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Radio has a nice video, taken by a walker on the beach at Freshwater, of a cliff collapse event. The video was uploaded onto Facebook by Phil Baldwin, who was collecting fossils on the cliff face. ITV News has a nice report that provides more detail about what happened. Phil Baldwin has also uploaded some images of the aftermath of the landslide onto …
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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