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19 November 2019
Landslides triggered by the Mw=7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake in Canada
A new study (Barth et al. 2019) has mapped the landslides triggered by the 27 October 2012 Mw=7.8 Haida Gwaii earthquake in British Columbia, Canada
12 November 2019
The 2019 Cotabato earthquakes: the Barangay Bato landslide cluster
The Barangay Bato landslide cluster from the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines, captured by Planet Labs satellites
11 November 2019
Planet Labs images of landslides triggered by the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines
At least two distinct clusters of landslides were triggered by the 2019 Cotabato earthquakes in the Philippines. This post provides Planet Labs images of the cluster at Baragay Buhay.
5 November 2019
The Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
The 5 km long ancient, earthquake triggered (?) Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
4 November 2019
Cotabato, Philippines: large landslides from the series of earthquakes in October 2019
A sequence of earthquakes in Cotabato in the Philippines in late October 2019 has triggered a number of large landslides, causing at least seven fatalities
25 September 2019
The Mirpur earthquake in Pakistan: images of lateral spreading
The 24th September 2019 M=5.6 Mirpur earthquake in NW Pakistan appears to have generated some large lateral spreads along the banks of the Jhelum River.
28 June 2019
The chains of geologic hazards arising from earthquakes
In a simply wonderful paper just published in Reviews of Geophysics, which is open access, Fan et al. (2019) review the literature on chains of geologic hazards arising from large earthquakes, with a focus on the Ch-Chi and Wenchuan events.
29 April 2019
Landslides from the 22 April 2019 M=6.1 earthquake at Gutad, Luzon in the Philippines
The 22 April 2019 M=6.1 earthquake at Gutad in Luzon, Philippines triggered multiple landslides. These are evident in a Planet Labs satellite image.
20 April 2019
Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video of a very near-miss with a co-seismic rockfall in Taiwan
Taroko Gorge: a dashcam video has been posted to Youtube showing a very near-miss with an earthquake-triggered rockfall in Taiwan
10 April 2019
GEER report on the Palu landslides
GEER has published a report on the Palu-Donggala landslides, triggered by the 28 September 2018 Mw=7.5 Palu earthquake in Indonesia
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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