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18 June 2016
Using climbing guides to examine changes in rockfall activity in the European Alps
In a recent paper, Temme (2015) has used descriptions of rockfall risk in Alpine climbing guides to examine the effects of climate change on the degradation of permafrost and the resulting increased occurrence of rockfalls.
13 May 2016
New landslide videos from the last few days, including an impressive rockfall at Mont Granier
Two new landslide videos have appeared on Youtube, including an impressive rockfall last weekend on Mont Granier in the French Prealps and a smaller collapse at Swimmer’s Delight in California
28 April 2016
Forecasting the time of failure: the Preonzo rockslide
In a wonderful new paper in the journal Landslides, Simon Loew and collagues describe the use of monitoring data to forecast the failure of the 2012 Preonzo rockslide in Switzerland
15 April 2016
Colonnata: a large collapse in a Carrara marble quarry in Italy
Yesterday a large rockfall occurred at a quarry for Carrara Marble at Colonnata in Tuscany, Italy, killing two quarry workers and injuring a third. Carrara Marble is the stone from which Michelangelo carved his sculpture David, and it is a prized building material worldwide.
29 March 2016
Sparmos Dam – a significant dam failure in Greece on Sunday 27th March
On Sunday 28th March 2016 the Sparmos Dam in Greece underwent an overtopping and breach event, damaging local fields and roads
17 March 2016
The Val Strem rockslide – a dramatic long run out landslide in Switzerland
On Monday night the Val Strem rockslide thundered off the Cuolm is da Vinci in Switzerland. This dramatic rockslide travelled about 1 km down the valley
27 February 2016
Vajont – La diga del disonore: the landslide scene
The Italian film Vajont – La diga del disonore (2001) provided a dramatisation of the events of the 1963 Vajont landslide disaster in 1963. The dramatic and harrowing landslide scene is now available on Youtube
25 February 2016
The Vajont Slide: A new event chronology and the importance of geomorphology
In a new paper, Wolter et al (2015) have re-examined the 1963 Vajont slide, proposing a new chronology for the evolution of the landslide that caused the disaster.
23 February 2016
Ropoto: a town in Greece lost to a landslide
In Greece the town of Ropoto has been abandoned due to the movement of a large landslide. Damage was 1st noticed in the 1960s, but the town was lost in 2012
18 February 2016
An update on the Yaglidere Landslide, including another video
I have come across another video of the Yaglidere landslide in Turkey. Caner Zanbak has also provided very useful information about this landslide.
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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