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19 February 2014
Jupille 1961: an extraordinary fly ash landslide
The 1961 fly ash landslide at Jupille in Belgium killed 11 people. A new paper resurrects the idea that air fluidization may have been the key mechanism
17 February 2014
New paper: the role of fatigue in rockfalls
A review of our new paper (Brain et al 2014) that examines the role of fatigue in rockfall generation
6 January 2014
New paper review – seismic data generated by the Bingham Canyon landslide
A new paper examines the geophysical data generated by the Bingham Canyon landslide, showing the rock avalanches induced tectonic aftershocks.
13 December 2013
Killing off the Canary Islands landslide megatsunami scare
A new paper should end the scare that a landslide in the Canary Islands could cause a megatsunami that would devastate coast areas in Europe & America
22 March 2013
A very important new paper – detecting large landslides using seismic data
Goran Ekstrom and Colin Stark have today published a paper in Science on the detection of large landslides using seismic data. This provides the potential to create a catalogue of these events and to analyse, for the first time, their dynamics
16 August 2012
Global patterns of loss of life from landslides – my new paper in the journal Geology
My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.
15 November 2011
New paper on landslide-dams and genetic change in fish
A review of a new paper that has identified a new, large, ancient landslide in northern California. The landslide dam had a surprising impact on the local fish population
4 October 2011
Geological evidence for a large landslide in Tenerife
A brief review of a new paper that describes a newly discovered catastrophic landslide deposit in Tenerife.
23 June 2011
The seismic signature of a large landslide
A little under two years ago, on 9th August 2009, Typhoon Morakot triggered a catastrophic landslide that destroyed the village of Hsiaolin in southern Taiwan, killing over 400 people. I covered this event in detail at the time and later that same year visited the site. There is a presentation about the typhoon and landslide online that can be downloaded. The journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Science has just …
25 October 2010
Landslides, forests and pandas – conservation and the Wenchuan earthquake
The vast number of landslides triggered by the May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and in its aftermath has been extensively described, not least on this blog. One of the documented impacts of these landslides was the well-documented loss of habitat of the giant panda (A. melanoleuca) due to extensive forest loss. However, there is a great deal more to that story than meets the eye, as a newly-published paper by Vina …
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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