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18 February 2012
New landslide video: open cast coal mine failure in Indonesia
A new video of a large landslide in an open cast coal mine in Indonesia in January 2012
1 December 2011
Landslide in Indonesia: seven dead, many more reported missing
Reports are emerging of a landslide in Nias, Indonesia. Seven people have been killed, about another 30 people may be missing.
26 November 2011
A summary of some recent landslide events
A round-up of landslide events that have caught my eye in the last week.
5 November 2010
Hurricane Tomas, Mount Merapi and landslides in Costa Rica
With three substantial natural hazard events occurring simultaneously, I thought I would post a round-up of those rapidly-evolving events: 1. Hurricane Tomas As feared, Hurricane Tomas is now bringing heavy rainfall to Haiti. The path of the storm has been somewhat erratic, as the Tropical Storm Risk track map shows. However, the storm is now tracking in a generally north-northwesterly direction, and is likely to pass just to the west of …
27 October 2010
The Mantawai islands tsunami and the eruption of Mount Merapi in Indonesia
Indonesia is today trying to deal simultaneously with two substantial natural hazards of a rather different nature. The earthquake on Monday 25th October triggered a localised tsunami in the Mentawai islands, close to the epicentre, the Reuters Alertnet reports killed 108 people and has left a further 502 people missing. The data on the earthquake available on the USGS website suggest that this was a Mw=7.7 event at a depth of …
24 February 2010
Overview photo of the Bandung landslide
The Jakarta Post has an overview image of the Bandung landslide:
Massive landslide in West Java, Indonesia
A large landslide occurred yesterday in the Dewata tea plantation area in Pasir Jambu, Southern Bandung in West Java, Indonesia, burying the accommodation for temporary plantation workers. It is estimated that 70 people were buried by the slide. This image, from AP, appears to show the head of the landslide, which looks to be a large but comparatively shallow flow type failure in regolith: The toe of the slide, including …
11 November 2009
A surprising spell of landslides
In most years in which I have been collecting landslide fatality statistics (since 2002) November has been a month with quite low landslide occurrence. Not this year though – in fact the last few days have been more like the summer monsoon season, with fatal landslides occurring in a wide range of places. Examples include: El Salvador on 6th November, in which the volcanic lahars triggered by Hurricane Ida appear …
7 October 2009
More images of the earthquake-triggered landslides in Sumatra
I thought it would be useful to provide a compilation of images of the landslides triggered by the Sumatra earthquake. ReliefWeb is reporting that over 1000 landslides were triggered: “Landslides have hindered relief efforts in some areas. The West Sumatra Satkorlak reported at least 1,000 landslide spots in Gunung Tigo highlands, located between Padang Pariaman and Agam districts. Six helicopters carrying food and medical supplies were dispatched to the highlands …
5 October 2009
The elephant and the landslide
In one of the strangest stories of the year, Tempo Interaktif in Indonesia reports the death of an elephant, and three people, in a landslide in Sumatra: “Heavy rains in Lampung Province have triggered landslide which killed three people in Tanggamus Regency and cut the Sumatra inter-provincial road in the western coast of the island on Sunday. A hillside was heavily eroded by the rain and mudslide blocked the main …
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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