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2 March 2015
Gazost: an impressive landslide in the Hautes-Pyrenees
On Friday an interesting and quite mobile landslide affected the village of Gazost in the Haute-Pyrenees region of France
19 January 2014
Torrential rain in Italy and France, especially in Liguria, causes landslides
Heavy rainfall in the last few days has triggered landslides in the Liguria region of Italy
23 July 2013
An even better video of the large rock topple and collapse at Saint Jouin Breneval in France
A spectacular new video has emerged of the rock topple in Normandy, France last week
18 July 2013
Toppling failure – a spectacular time lapse video from coastal cliffs in France
BRGM, the French Geological Survey, have captured a time lapse sequence of photographs of a toppling failure from St Jouin Bruneval in Normandy, France
25 June 2012
Two neat debris flow videos from France
Two excellent new videos of debris flows that occurred in France in June 2012
5 March 2012
The impact of a rockfall formed from a 200 tonne boulder
Startling images of a fatal rockfall from a 200 tonne boulder in France last week
10 February 2012
Friday fun: a new landslide video and a remarkable escape from a rockfall
As a bit of light-hearted relief from the Philippines and Papua New Guinea landslides, here are two interesting landslide items. First, with a hat-tip to Greg Springer, there is a new landslide video on Youtube. It is another good one (despite the music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Px-73K_4SU According to the Youtube page “The landslide occurred summer 2011 in Athens County, Ohio during construction of a new road.” I will update the ultimate landslide …
23 September 2009
An interesting landslide website: Observatoire Multidisciplinaire des Instabilités de Versants’ (OMIV)
In France there is an organisation called OMIV (Observatoire Multidisciplinaire des Instabilités de Versants), which is charged with the responsibility to “conduct geomorphologic, geologic, hydrologic, geophysical and seismic studies related to long-term monitoring, understanding of processes, and assessment of hazards at several active landslides”. Perhaps most interestingly, they make the data from their various measurements available online, which provides a great research and teaching tool. The website is here:http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/omiv/Accueil.html The …
An interesting landslide website: Observatoire Multidisciplinaire des Instabilités de Versants' (OMIV)
In France there is an organisation called OMIV (Observatoire Multidisciplinaire des Instabilités de Versants), which is charged with the responsibility to “conduct geomorphologic, geologic, hydrologic, geophysical and seismic studies related to long-term monitoring, understanding of processes, and assessment of hazards at several active landslides”. Perhaps most interestingly, they make the data from their various measurements available online, which provides a great research and teaching tool. The website is here:http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/omiv/Accueil.html The …
6 November 2008
Floods in France
France is currently suffering some terrible flooding that is also resulting in a serious threat of mudslides to the extent that some motorways (freeways) have had to be closed. Although not really landslides, I felt I just had to show the following pictures of the Grangent reservoir on the Loire valley, which has trapped an extraordinary amount of debris washed down the river as a result of the rainfall: Debris …
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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