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6 November 2019
Genting: a major landslide in Malaysia
Today a major landslide occurred in the Genting Highlands of Malaysia, a popular tourist area. The channelised flow was captured in a mobile phone video.
1 June 2017
Landslide weirdness: Sri Lanka
Landslide weirdness: an article in a newspaper in Sri Lanka blames the recent devastating landslides on a shift towards the North Pole!
17 October 2008
Retaining wall collapse, Uganda
On Tuesday morning a collapse occurred in a retaining wall being constructed for the foundations of a new tower block in the capital of Uganda, Kampala. Two images have been published online of the failure, which buried nine workers, killing eight of them: Monitor online image of the Pensions Towers collapse site New Vision image of the Pensions Towers collapse site Collapses like this are now quite rare in more …
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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