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17 July 2015
Landslides in Art Part 23: Marzia Colonna
Part 23 of the Landslides in Art series looks at a piece entitled Rockfall at Burton Bradstock by Dorset based artists Marzia Colonna
4 February 2015
Harbury Tunnel landslide: an update from Network Rail
Yesterday Network Rail released more information, and some good images, of the Harbury Tunnel landslide in Central England. The images suggest a complex failure mechanism involving 350,000 tonnes of material
19 December 2014
My latest paper: Patterns of movement at the Ventnor landslide on the Isle of Wight
In my latest paper, just published in the journal Landslides, my co-authors and I examine monitoring data for the Ventnor landslide in southern England
8 January 2014
Remarkable coastal change from the recent UK storms
It is becoming clear that the recent UK storms have markedly altered the rock coasts of parts of England
27 September 2012
Exceptional erosion undercuts an apartment block in the UK
In Newburn, near Newcastle in NE England, exceptional rainfall has caused the erosion of the foundations of an apartment block.
17 July 2012
Breaking news – a fatal landslide at Beaminster in Dorset, UK
The bodies were discovered last night of two people killed in a landslide at Beaminster, in Dorset, S. England on 7th July
29 June 2012
Railway landslides in the UK yesterday
Intense rainfall brought by thunderstorms triggered multiple landslides on the UK rail network yesterday
7 January 2010
Angler killed in rockfall in NE England
The BBC is reporting that an an angler was killed in a landslide last night in Sandy Bay, near Newbiggin-on-Sea in Northumberland, NE. England. He was reportedly standing at the top of a 15 m high cliff that collapsed, killing him when he fell. This is Sandy Bay:
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 …
22 January 2009
Whitby – the old and the new
As someone interested in earth processes, one of the great powers of the internet is the ability to access quickly images of places in which I am interested. Over the last few years my colleagues and I have been studying rockfall processes at the town of Whitby in N. Yorkshire, which is in NE. England. I thought as a bit of fun I would compare two images of the cliffs …
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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