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10 December 2015
Landslides triggered by Storm Desmond in the UK last weekend
Storm Desmond brought record-breaking rainfall to Cumbria and Scotland this weekend, causing extensive landsliding across a large area.
8 December 2009
Landslide in the Lake District (Cumbria) in the recent floods
Thanks to Rhiannon George of Meridian Geoscience for her help with this – the images and most of the information have been provided by her. The press coverage of the recent (English) all time record rainfall event in Cumbria (in the area most commonly known as the Lake District in NW England) has focused upon the disastrous floods at Cockermouth. However, less well reported is the extensive devastation up in …
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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