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27 February 2015
George Monbiot and the Harbury landslide
The writer George Monbiot has linked the Harbury landslide with the removal of vegetation from the embankment that failed. This does not seem to be correct based on the images on Google Earth and from the scene
4 February 2015
Harbury Tunnel landslide: an update from Network Rail
Yesterday Network Rail released more information, and some good images, of the Harbury Tunnel landslide in Central England. The images suggest a complex failure mechanism involving 350,000 tonnes of material
2 February 2015
The Harbury tunnel and cutting landslide in Central England
A major landslide occurred in the Harbury cutting and tunnel in Warwickshire, England on Saturday, blocking an important railway line
1 December 2014
Landslides in the Movies Part 2: The Railway Children (1970)
The 1970 movie The Railway Children featured a translational landslide that blocked a railway track. Fortunately three children were on hand to save the day
7 November 2014
A roundup of recent landslide events
An roundup of recent landslides, including an update on the Mannen landslide in Norway, a fatal landslide in Switzerland and a rockslide in Canada that has left a train driver missing
20 March 2014
Dawlish: inducing landslide failure using firehoses
At Dawlish in SW England Network Rail are trying to mitigate a landslide by inducing failure using fire hoses
4 March 2013
New images of the Hatfield Colliery (coal mine) landslide in northern England
New images have appeared on Twitter of the Hatfield Colliery landslide. These show some amazing deformation patterns at the toe of the landslide
19 December 2012
Unbelievable – a video of a landslide striking and derailing a freight train in Everett, near Seattle, USA
On Monday a landslide derailed a freight train Everett, near Seattle in Washington State, USA. The landslide was caught on a remarkable video
14 December 2012
Images of a railway landslide in the Canadian Rockies
Some images of a spectacular rockslide in western Canada that blocked the CN mainline last month
30 November 2012
Multiple landslides in the UK in the last week
A selection of landslides triggered by the recent uusually heavy rainfall across the UK
Dave Petley is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. His blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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