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14 July 2023
The Medieval 23 cubic kilometre Sabche rockslide in Annapurna, Nepal
A new paper in the journal Nature (Lavé et al. 2023) describes the 23 cubic km Sabche rockslide in Annapurna, Nepal, which occurred about 850 years ago.
4 July 2023
The triggering of slope failure – the Qingliucun landslide
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Xue et al, 2023) examines the triggering of the December 2020 Qingliucun landslide in Sichuan, China.
26 June 2023
The 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide in Switzerland
The 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide in Switzerland, which killed three people and destroyed 11 houses.
21 April 2023
Post-seismic evolution of landslides in the Wenchuan earthquake area
A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.
20 April 2023
The 26 November 2022 Casamicciola landslide on the island of Ischia in Italy
A new paper in the journal Landslides describes the 26 November 2022 Casamicciola landslide on the island of Ischia in Italy, which killed 12 people
18 April 2023
Landslides as a dominant landscape process on icy satellites
Landslides as a dominant landscape process on icy satellites The journal Icarus has a very interesting new paper (Mills et al. 2023) that considers why some icy satellites of large planets, such as those orbiting Jupiter and Saturn (in particular Ganymede, Europa, and Enceladus), have smooth surfaces with very few impact craters. There is a good plain English summary of this work on the Interesting Engineering website too. Conventionally, the …
2 February 2023
The 15 December 1952 Niiortuut landslide-tsunami in central West Greenland
A paper in Science of the Total Environment (Svennevig et al. 2023) describes the 15 December 1952 Niiortuut landslide in Greenland. It concludes that this was one of the earliest anthropogenic warming-induced landslides identified to date.
26 January 2023
The 19 July 2019 Yahuokou landslide in Gansu Province, China
On 19 July 2019, the large (3.92M cubic metre) Yahuokou landslide started to develop at Dongshan Town, Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, China
23 December 2022
Losses from debris flows in Brazil
An open access paper in the journal Landslides (Cabral et al. 2022) analyses debris flows in Brazil over the last century, finding that 45 events have killed 5,771 people and generated US$5,5 billion in economic losses.
7 November 2022
The May 2022 landslide cluster at Dima Hasao district in Assam, India
In May 2022 heavy rainfall triggered many landslides at Dima Hasao district in Assam, India. In a new paper in the journal Landslides, Roy et al. (2022) have mapped >5000 individual slides in this 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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