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25 January 2010
Ongoing massive retaining wall failure in San Antonio, Texas, USA
Updated here In the United States there is an interesting developing story about a large-scale retaining wall failure that is causing the collapse of a housing estate in San Antonio, Texas. The housing development, called the Rivermist subdivision, is the one shown in the Google Earth image below. It is still under construction. The marker shows the approximate location of the slide, as far as I can tell: According to …
8 July 2009
New landslide videos – slow moving slides affecting houses
I have come across yet another new landslide video. This one was shot in Brazil during the recent heavy rainfall there. This one is quite unusual as the landslide is large and slow moving, but in the video it overruns a house, causing it to collapse: You should be able to play the movie below: http://www.liveleak.com/e/5e9_1228526236 There is also a short video of a landslide removing the support from a …
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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