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4 April 2013
Caveat Emptor part 2 – the end game
Over the last few months a house in Torquay, England has been progressively lost to a landslide. This post presents a series of photos of its collapse
30 January 2013
A call for landslide photos for the USGS library archive
. Lynn Highland, a Geographer with the Landslide Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is joining the USGS Library in a project to compile an archive of copyright free, high-resolution (if possible) photographs of all aspects of landslides. These contributed photos would be archived permanently with, and obtainable through, the USGS Library website, which can be accessed here: http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/index.html The photographs archived at the library are public domain and …
5 January 2013
Remarkable photos of a collapsing arch in California
Robert Wills has captured an amazing sequence of images of the collapse of a natural arch in a coastal cliff in California
14 December 2012
Images of a railway landslide in the Canadian Rockies
Some images of a spectacular rockslide in western Canada that blocked the CN mainline last month
1 November 2012
Images of landslides from the Sikkim Earthquake
Some images of landslides in Nepal triggered by the September 2011 Mw=6.9 Sikkim earthquake
10 April 2012
The Xintan landslide in the Three Gorges area of China
A brief report on the 1985 Xintan landslide in China
15 March 2012
The Dover chalk cliff rockfall in the context of other such events
A brief comparison of the recent chalk cliff rockfall in Dover with similar events in the literature
17 February 2012
Context for the Tumbi Quarry landslide – an image gallery for quarry and open cast landslides
A photo gallery of landslides in and around mines and quarries
10 February 2012
Comparing the response to the Tumbi Quarry and Philippines earthquake landslides
An update on both the Tumbi Quarry and Philippine earthquake landslides, including new images from the Philippines
14 January 2012
A photo album of landslide damage at Golden Bay, Nelson, New Zealand
In December 2011 a severe rainstorm triggered landslides in Golden Bay, New Zealand. This post provides photos of the landslide damage.
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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