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28 February 2018
An emerging crisis? Valley blocking landslides in the Papua New Guinea highlands
An emerging crisis? Video and images are emerging showing multiple valley blocking landslides in the Papua New Guinea highlands
20 February 2018
First satellite images of the Puerto Venus debris flows
Parts of the track Puerto Venus debris flows in Colombia last week have been captured on satellite imagery by Planet Labs
16 January 2018
Satellite images of the Montecito debris flows in California
Last week significant debris flows struck the Montecito area of California, causing at least 20 fatalities. Planet Labs have now captured medium and high resolution images of the area affected.
22 March 2017
Comet 67P: a large landslide on another world
In a paper just published in Nature Astronomy, Pajola et al (2017) describe a 22,000 cubic metre rockfall on Comet 67P, observed by the ESA Rosetta Mission
16 July 2015
Pluto has mountains, so does it have landslides too?
The astonishing NASA New Horizon images of the surface of Pluto show that it has young mountains 3500 m tall. Does this mean that it has landslides too?
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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