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7 March 2023
The remarkable landslide in an olive grove near to Hatay, triggered by the Turkey earthquakes
The remarkable landslide in an olive grove near to Hatay, triggered by the Turkey earthquake, has been captured in satellite imagery by Planet.
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.
27 February 2023
Kandersteg: a massive rock slope failure in Switzerland caught on video
Kandersteg: a massive rock slope failure in Switzerland caught on video. Fortunately, the collapse had been anticipated through monitoring
20 February 2023
The 8 February 2023 rockfall in Steyr, Austria
On Wednesday 8 February 2023 a large rockfall occurred at Christkindl in the town of Steyr in Austria, tragically killing two men working to mitigate the hazard.
7 February 2023
First images of landslides from the 6 February 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes
First images of landslides from the 6 February 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes
28 November 2022
Casamicciola: drone footage of the deadly landslide at Ischia in Italy
Casamicciola: drone footage of the deadly landslide at Ischia in Italy, which is now known to have killed at least seven people.
21 October 2022
Novyi Svet: A large landslide in a landfill site in Russia
Novyi Svet: A large landslide in a landfill site in Russia On Thursday 20 October 2022 a large and notable landslide occurred at a landfill site in the village of Novyi Svet (Новый свет) in Gatchinsky, Russia (the village is at 59.559, 30.201). Unsurprisingly in these troubled times this has not been reported in the western media, but it is an impressive failure. The Russian website 78.ru has this image …
28 September 2022
The 1961 Kurenivka mudslide in Ukraine
On 13 March 1961 the Kurenivka mudslide killed up to 1,500 people in the city of Kyiv in Ukraine. Reports of the event were suppressed by the Soviet authorities,
25 July 2022
New peat landslides in Shetland (including a very interesting landslide video)
On 4 July 2022 a peat landslide occurred at the site of a windfarm under construction in Shetland, north Scotland.
5 May 2022
Malvik: an interesting landslide on the E6 highway in Norway
On Wednesday 4 May 2022 an interesting landslide occurred at a construction site on the E6 highway near to Malvik in Norway.
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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