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3 October 2018
High resolution imagery of the Palu landslides
DigitalGlobe has released high resolution imagery of two of the the Palu landslides, triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake last week
2 October 2018
Giant landslides in Palu from the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake
The city of Palu appears to have suffered from three very large (over 1 km) landslides in the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, all causing huge amounts of damage
1 October 2018
Lateral spreads from the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake
Video has emerged on Youtube apparently showing lateral spreads as they were triggered by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake on Friday
13 September 2018
Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence and the earthquake in Hokkaido
In a short space of time, Typhoon Mangkhut, Hurricane Florence and the earthquake in Hokkaido all have the potential to generate large numbers of landslides
5 September 2018
The Mw=6.6 earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan: early indications of significant landslides
Initial images from Japan indicated that the Mw=6.6 earthquake in Hokkaido today has induced significant numbers of landslides
3 September 2018
Dynamic liquefaction: a mass movement that can sink ships
Dynamic liquefaction, a key process that generates landslides in earthquakes, especially for example in the loess of China, also sinks large ships
29 August 2018
Landslides from the 16 August 2018 Mw=5.1 Molise earthquake in southern Italy
Salvatore Martino has kindly provided information about landslides triggered by the 16 August 2018 Mw=5.1 Molise earthquake in southern Italy
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 …
27 April 2018
Shaking table tests of the Newmark displacement method for earthquake induced landslides
In a new paper just published in Landslides, Li et al. (2018) use a shaking table model to show that the Newmark displacement method overestimates the critical acceleration value for earthquake induced landslides
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
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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