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11 March 2009
USGS educational video on landslides in the San Francisco Bay Area
Thanks to the Geology blog In Terra Veritas for highlighting a USGS video on landslides in the San Francisco Bay area. The video is a useful teaching / background resource, especially in terms of the way that it highlights the impacts of landslides on home owners, which is easily forgotten by both students and their teachers. The video compares two different slides; first, the Love Creek Heights landslide in the …
19 February 2009
A new landslide video from Bolivia
I have come across another video of a landslide from Bolivia. I suspect that this is the recent slide in La Paz, as per the following report from The News: “At least 300 people have been injured in the Bolivian city of La Paz following a serious mudslide, Mayor Juan del Granado said Tuesday. “The (movements) are still ongoing but we are talking about more than 60 families affected and …
6 February 2009
Another landslide video – car hit by landslide in Japan
There has been an extraordinary flurry of landslide videos of late (e.g. here) presumably reflecting both the high occurrence of landslide events and the ubiquity video sharing sites. Another has appeared this morning – this time from Japan. The video should be embedded below or can be viewed here. Watch more LiveLeak videos on AOL Video I guess this is not as spectacular as for example this one, this one …
30 January 2009
Some interesting landslide sites
I thought that it was high time to post a summary of some interesting landslide sites: Aowanda landslideThere is an interesting youtube video of a smallish progressive rockslide occurring at Aowanda in Taiwan here. It should also be visible below: Not quite as dramatic as some others, but useful nonetheless. Five disastrous landslides that changed the Canadian LandscapeThere is quite a nice non-scientific piece here that describes in non-technical language …
9 January 2009
Magnitude Mw=6.1 earthquake in Costa Rica
At 19:21 UTC (13:21 local time) on 8th January a Magnitude Mw=6.1 earthquake struck Costa Rica. Although this is not a particularly large earthquake, it is certainly substantial enough to have triggered many landslides, especially given that it occurred very close to the surface (the USGS depth estimate is just 4.5 km). Several reports have come in already about fatalities associated with landslides. Confirmed are the deaths of two girls …
8 January 2009
The Guatemala landslide – video of the failure in December
The Guatemalan landslide becomes more interesting by the day. It is now apparent that the first failure, which occurred on 14th December and killed five people (the remains of three of whom were not recovered) was also caught on video. This is available on Youtube. I have embedded it below, so should work: If not, then it can be viewed here.
7 January 2009
Another video of the Guatemala landslide
It now appears that there are two videos of the Guatemala landslide. The second one, which is not as clear as the original, has appeared on the Telediaro 3 web site. It can be viewed here: http://www.telediario.com.gt/index.php?id=15366&tim;=# Meanwhile, there remains considerable uncertainty as to the number of victims (we may never know for certain I suspect), whilst speculation is intensifying regarding the cause. Given the clear size of the landslide …
6 January 2009
The Guatemala landslide was caught on video!
Unbelievably, it turns out that the Guatemalan landslide, which it appears killed at least 42 people, was caught on video. Geologist Marlon Contreras was recording at the edge of the site when the failure occurred. The video captures the movement, although mercifully little of the detail. The video can be viewed at this web page:http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2009/enero/06/multimedia.html The failure that happens 1 minute and 50 seconds into the video defies belief! I …
3 December 2008
Another amazing Brazilian landslide video
Thanks to Christoph for the heads-up on this one. Following on from the two last week, another amazing landslide video has emerged from Brazil. This can be seen at this site: http://www.spitsnieuws.nl/archives/video/2008/12/aardverschuiving_vs_ambulance.html Click on the video on the web page to play it. The ambulancemen were very fortunate. The rate of movement and the violence of the landslide is quite remarkable.
26 November 2008
Extraordinary landslide video
In addition to the two landslide videos from Brazil, I have now come across an even more extraordinary video. This is apparently of a landslide that occurred in Mesitas in Colombia. Whilst the footage of the landslide itself is not as good as some others, the power of the slide as it hits a house is starkly illustrated. Unfortunately I cannot embed this one, so you will need to click …
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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