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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
28 July 2012
A landslide is rapidly destroying a World Heritage site in India
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a World Heritage site, has been closed by a landslide at Tindharia
30 June 2012
The train derailment on the West Highland line on Thursday
The Daily Mail has a set of images of the train derailed by a landslide on Thursday on the West Highland line in Scotland
29 June 2012
Railway landslides in the UK yesterday
Intense rainfall brought by thunderstorms triggered multiple landslides on the UK rail network yesterday
1 May 2012
Two railway landslides in the UK
In exceptionally heavy rainfall over the last week in the UK there has been two significant landslide events on railway lines.
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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