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7 February 2020
Zaldibar: a major garbage dump landslide in Spain yesterday
On 6 February 2020 at about 4 pm local time a significant garbage dump landslide occurred in the Ermua landfill at Zaldibar in the Basque region of Spain, leaving two people missing.
19 December 2019
Landslides in Art Part 31: Leonardo da Vinci
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Margottini 2019) suggests that Leonardo da Vinci depicted at least two landslides in his wonderful drawings
18 December 2019
Larvik: a classic wedge failure on a Norwegian road last week
Late on Friday 13 December 2019 a large wedge failure developed on a cut rock slope on the E18 motorway at Larvik in Norway
4 December 2019
Les Mees: a spectacular and unusual rockfall in France
On 2 December 2019 a spectacular rockfall occurred above the village of Les Mees in Alpes de Haute Provence, France, completely destroying a house
25 November 2019
Savona: a landslide-induced bridge collapse in Italy
Yesterday, a landslide struck an elevated section of the A6 motorway on the road between Savona and Turin in Italy, causing the roadway to collapse
22 November 2019
Deep-seated gravitational slope deformations: Piz Dora
The Piz Dora deep-seated gravitational slope deformation in Switzerland is a beautiful example of a giant creeping landslide in a high mountain area
14 November 2019
Lokeberg: an interesting quick clay slide triggered by piling in Western Sweden
On 13 November 2019 a landslide affected a coastal area at Lokeburg in western Sweden. It appears that this was a quick clay landslide triggered by piling for a new beach house.
8 October 2019
Samothraki: the role of goats in increasing landslide hazard
Samothraki: on a small Greek island, uncontrolled grazing of goats has led to a catastrophic increase in landslide hazard
20 September 2019
The 1985 Stava tailings dam disaster
The failure of the Stava tailings dam in Trento, Italy in 1985 generated a mudflow that killed 268 people downstream of the facility.
6 September 2019
Veslemannen in Norway – major movement, and possibly a significant failure, reported
After a phase of accelerated movement in the last few days, the large Velsemannen rockslide in Norway underwent a significant failure overnight
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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