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13 October 2015
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana is a giant prehistoric rockslide that has created a large lake in the Beartooth Mountains
5 October 2015
The seismically triggered landslide dam in Honshiyan, Yunnan, China: a review of a new paper
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in 2014.
21 June 2015
Tbilisi, Georgia:- a landslide dam-break flood killed 19 people
Last Sunday a flash flood killed at least 19 people and destroyed the zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia. The cause appears to have been the collapse of a landslide dam on the Vere River about 20 km upstream of the city
26 May 2015
Kali Gandaki: an interesting landslide dam and breach
On Sunday a landslide blocked the Kali Gandaki river in Nepal for about 15 hours before breaching to release a significant flood.
4 March 2015
Chitral and Humla – two new valley-blocking landslides in the high mountains of South Asia?
Reports emerged yesterday of two new valley-blocking landslides in the high mountains of South Asia, one in Humla, Nepal and one in Chitral, Pakistan
18 February 2015
Landslides from the 2015 Wilberforce earthquake in New Zealand
The GNS landslide team have produced a reconnaissance report detailing the landslides triggered by the 2015 Wilberforce earthquake in New Zealand
27 January 2015
New satellite images of the Tsarap landslide in the Zanskar Valley
Two new sets of satellite images have been released of the Tsarap landslide in the Zanskar Valley of Northern India
22 January 2015
The landslide on the Tsarap River in the Zanskar Valley – new images
New images have been posted on Facebook showing the landslide on the Tsarap River in Zanskar, N. India
21 January 2015
Zanskar Valley: the location of the landslide
Colin Stark at Columbia University has located the landslide in the Zanskar valley using Landsat 8 imagery
20 January 2015
Zanskar River landslide: more information
New images have emerged of the landslide that has blocked the Zanskar River in northern India
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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