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1 August 2011
Images of landslides from the Christchurch earthquakes part 1: boulder damage to a house
The first set of images of landslides triggered by the recent Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand. This set show a house that has been struck by a large boulder.
5 January 2011
Google Ngrams – the use of the word “landslide”
Google now has about a million books online dating from 1500 to 2008. An interesting tool that they have provided, and which is great fun with which to play, is the NGram viewer, which allows the user to search for, and graph, the occurrence of specific words through time in these texts. Note that the data are presented as the use of the word as a percentage of the total words in the …
7 January 2010
The ten most important “natural” disasters of the last ten years
As we are now at the end of the “noughties” I thought that it would be interesting to compile a list of the ten most important “natural” (i.e. geophysical and hydro-meteorological) disasters of the decade. This is not intended to be a list of the ten most damaging or with the highest number of fatalities, but more to reflect events that changed the way that we think or act about …
The ten most important "natural" disasters of the last ten years
As we are now at the end of the “noughties” I thought that it would be interesting to compile a list of the ten most important “natural” (i.e. geophysical and hydro-meteorological) disasters of the decade. This is not intended to be a list of the ten most damaging or with the highest number of fatalities, but more to reflect events that changed the way that we think or act about …
7 December 2009
Landslides in Art Part 2: "Landslide" by Chiura Obata
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
Landslides in Art Part 2: “Landslide” by Chiura Obata
This is the second of my occasional series on landslides in art. Part One can be found here. In 1941 the Japanese-American landscape painter Chiura Obata produced the following painting, simply named “Landslide”: For me this is a powerful image for two reasons. First, it manages to communicate the horror of landslides, and in particular the chaotic engulfing of everything in its path. Second, of course 1941 was a very …
27 November 2008
Presentation on the Wenchuan (Sichuan) earthquake
Tomorrow (Friday) I am giving a talk at Hazards Day in Manchester for AS/A2 students (year 12 and Year 13 in the UK system). The topic is the hazards associated with the Wenchuan (Sichuan) Earthquake in China. I have uploaded the file below: http://www.authorstream.com/player.swf?p=113874_633633648527967500Uploaded on authorSTREAM by Dr_Dave This talk will be repeated at an event in London on Thursday 4th December.
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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