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16 February 2010
Watch this! Extraordinary landslide video – Maierato, Italy
See update post here The BBC has an extraordinary video of a landslide in Maierato in Southern Italy. More later, but for now the link is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8517378.stm UPDATE: Youtube has a longer version of the video below: See update post here
24 January 2010
New, remarkable animation video of the Po Shan Road landslide in Hong Kong
Thanks to David Kwok of the Geotechnical Engineering Office in Hong Kong for highlighting this video to me, and for the image below. On 18th June 1972 Hong Kong suffered an extraordinary landslide at Po Shan Road, in the Mid-Levels area: The slide, which had a volume of about 40,000 cubic metres, induced the collapse of two large buildings, killing 67 people and injuring a further 20. The landslide understandably …
22 November 2009
Landslide impacts in Turkey
The last few days have seen very heavy rain in Turkey, with a number of landslides. ITN has a short clip of home footage showing a large buikding collapsing as it is hit by a landslide: http://itn.co.uk/9cff433ac9de157976f9b579cbe8c656.html The distress shown by the man in the foreground – presumably an owner or resident – illustrates graphically the impact of these events on people.
11 November 2009
One of the best landslide videos so far!
Many of the landslide videos that I have featured on here have been quite low quality. The one featured below is unusually good. I have updated this to provide the (better) Youtube version: The slide apparently occurred at Polk County in Tennessee, USA, on 10th November 2009. The slide appears to be a rockslide on a discontinuity dipping parallel to the slope. An interesting element of this is the clear …
6 November 2009
New landslide video – houses destroyed in Brazil, November 2008
I have come across an impressive and dramatic landslide video, apparently from Brazil and taken in November 2008. The video quality is reasonably good: http://www.liveleak.com/e/704_1228511265 Or you can go directly to the Liveleak web page.
11 October 2009
Video of the aftermath of landslides triggered by Typhoon Parma in the Philippines
Latest update here. Youtube has an interesting video of the aftermath of the Philippine landslides triggered by Typhoon Parma (known locally as Pepeng): If the above does not work you can access it via the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuF1KFXBqAs&feature;=related
15 September 2009
Interesting landslide footage from La Jolla, California
Image from here The La Jolla landslide in San Diego California occurred in October 2007, destroying three houses and a road, and leaving many more damaged. The landslide is currently the subject of a lawsuit that was filed by the householders. I am not going to comment further on the slide whilst this is going on, but as part of the evidence in the case some mobile phone footage has …
1 September 2009
A video of a river bank failure
The BBC News website has a short video showing the effects of heavy rainfall in Southern China in mid August. Most notable is a pretty remarkable piece of footage of buildings sliding down a river bank and into the torrents below. You can view it here.
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 …
30 June 2009
Three new landslide / debris flow videos
Thanks to Lynn Highland at the USGS for drawing my attention to this video of a debris flow in Costa Rica: This is a slightly strange event. It occurred on the Sarapiqui River in Costa Rica after the 16th January 2009 Cinchona earthquake. It is not all clear why the earthquake should have triggered such a debris flow given that there was no rainfall, but a suggestion is that there …
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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