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3 October 2022
Shuiliandong: an example of a landslide triggered by underground coal mining
Shuiliandong: a paper in the journal Landslides (Ma et al, 2022) highlights an example of a landslide triggered by underground coal mining
26 September 2022
High resolution satellite imagery of the Jagersfontein tailings dam failure
Satellite image company Planet Labs has released high resolution imagery of the Jagersfontein tailings dam failure
15 September 2022
Provisional InSAR data for the Jagersfontein Tailings Storage Facility failure
CGG Minerals and Mining has posted provisional but fascinating InSAR data for the site of the Jagersfontein Tailings Storage Facility failure
13 September 2022
Analysing the aerial and satellite imagery of the Jagersfontein tailings dam disaster
Aerial and satellite imagery of the Jagersfontein tailings dam disaster highlights a complex failure event and high mobility of the slimes.
12 September 2022
The 11 September 2022 Jagersfontein tailings dam failure
On 11 September 2022 a major tailings dam failure occurred at Jagersfontein in South Africa. The local plume of pollution extends >8 km.
8 September 2022
The 5 September 2022 landslide at a mine at Labohan Dagang in Malaysia
On 5 September 2022 a significant landslide occurred at an active tin (?) mine in Labohan Dagang, Banting, Malaysia. The event was caught on video from two different perspectives.
4 August 2022
The 26 July 2016 landslide at Fushun west pit in China
On 26 July 2016 a 3.1 million cubic metre landslide occurred at a high wall coal mine at Fushun in China, causing extensive damage. The failure is documented in a new paper (Sun et al. 2022) in the journal Landslides.
9 June 2022
The Black Lake landslide at Thetford Mines in Quebec
In the last few days a video captured by a drone of the aftermath of the 2009 Black Lake rockslide at Thetford Mines in Quebec, Canada, has gone viral.
4 May 2022
The Claxton Bay landslide in Trinidad
The residents of a community in the Claxton Bay area of Trinidad in the Caribbean are having their lives destroyed by a landslide
6 April 2022
A tailings dam failure in Wenquan Township Jiaokou County, Shanxi Province, China
On 27 March 2022 a tailings dam failed at Wenquan Township, Shanxi Province, China. Satellite images from Planet reveal the scale of the event
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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