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28 November 2022
Casamicciola: drone footage of the deadly landslide at Ischia in Italy
Casamicciola: drone footage of the deadly landslide at Ischia in Italy, which is now known to have killed at least seven people.
22 February 2022
Increased landslide activity after low-magnitude earthquakes
A new study has found increased landslide activity in the months after the low-magnitude 2018 Molise earthquake in Italy
12 October 2021
A large rock slope collapse from Punta dei Ross, Croda Marcora in the Italian Dolomites
A large rock slope collapse from Punta dei Ross, Croda Marcora in the Italian Dolomites
21 May 2021
The Pietrafitta landslide: can traffic vibration cause a landslide to move?
The Pietrafitta landslide: a new paper published in Landslides (Guerriero et al. 2021) shows that traffic vibration can cause a landslide to move under certain circumstances
11 March 2021
The Tavernola landslide: a potential tsunami-inducing failure causing concern in Italy
The Tavernola landslide: in Italy there is concern that failure of a large rock slope could generate a substantial tsunami in Lago d’Iseo
23 February 2021
Camogli, Italy: the unfortunate impact of a landslide in a cemetery
Camogli, Italy: a large coastal landslide on 22 February 2021 has severely damaged a cemetery
10 January 2021
Protecting the rescuers – a disastrous double landslide at Cihanjuang in Indonesia and a lucky escape in Italy
Cihanjuang, Indonesia & Bolzano, Italy: a tragedy in which rescuers were killed by a second landslide and a lucky escape in a rock slope failure on a hotel
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
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
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.
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