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2 February 2014
Jalan Kenanga: A video of a retaining wall failure in Malaysia
In Jalan Kenanga in Malaysia in 2009, a large retaining wall collapsed at a construction site. A video captured the failure as it developed.
4 January 2013
A round-up of recent landslide stories and incidents
A round-up of interesting landslide stories in the last week, including the UK, New Zealand, Brazil and Malaysia
3 January 2013
Greater clarity, and some controversial media statements, about the Bukit Setiawangsa landslide in Malaysia
Further information is now available about the remarkable engineered slope failure at Bukit Setiawangsa in Malaysia
29 December 2012
A very large engineered slope failure in Malaysia – Bukit Setiawangsa
Malaysia suffered a very impressive failure in an engineered slope at Bukit Setiawangsa near Kuala Lumpur yesterday
7 November 2012
The National Slope Masterplan in Malaysia
A couple of years ago the Slope Engineering Department in Malaysia produced a National Slope Masterplan, which is now available online.
21 October 2010
The curious story of the Rajang log jam in Sarawak, Malaysia
An interesting if somewhat strange story has developed in Malaysia over the last few days. The Rajang River flows over a distance of about 560 km across Sarawak. It is fairly obvious on this Google Earth image: A fortnight ago reports emerged that there were navigation problems on the lower reaches of the river. Unusually, these issues occurred not because of high or low river levels, but because the …
4 November 2009
The basic physics of landslides is the same everywhere
Whilst landslides come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, the fundamental physics that controls material deformation on slopes is the same everywhere. I was reminded of this truism this week when Andrew Giles pointed out a large rockslide that occurred a few days ago, blocking Interstate 40 at Pigeon Gorge in North Carolina, USA. The Citizen-times.com website has a nice report and images of the slide: The images reminded …
24 May 2009
Malaysian Slope Safety Web Site
CKC, the slope engineering division of the Malaysian Public Works Department, have put together a website to provide advice to the public on slope safety: http://slopes.jkr.gov.my/Slopesafety/default.html Using a very simple structure, it provides a mass of very straightforward advice on what landslides are, why they happen, how to determine whether a slope problem is developing, and what to do in the event of a landslide. Whilst it clearly has a …
1 January 2009
Malaysia landslide – residents action group blog
I have only briefly touched upon the 6th December 2008 landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa in Kuala Lumpur, which has been a very high profile event in Malaysia. I don’t intend to comment on any aspect of the landslide – GiB has covered it in his own style in the oddly-named Landslide under Microscope blog – see here, here and here. Interestingly though a new Blog has appeared called Save Bukit …
16 November 2008
Article in the New Strait Times Malaysia
Shield your eyes from the photograph though… People pressure on land has a telling effect
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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