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20 April 2020
Salkantay – what happened after the initial failure?
The Planet Labs images from the Salkantay landslide in Peru suggest that the rock avalanche behaved in ways that are quite surprising.
28 March 2020
The 28 June 2010 Guanling landslide in China
On 28 June 2010 heavy rainfall triggered the 1 million cubic metre Guanling landslide in Guizhou, China, killing 99 people in two villages
16 March 2020
An analysis of the Piz Cengalo landslide
A new open access paper (Mergili et al. 2020), analyses the deadly 2017 Piz Cengalo rock avalanche and debris flow in Switzerland, which killed eight people
24 February 2020
The giant Kandersteg rock avalanche in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland
The Kandersteg rock avalanche is a 1.2 cubic kilometre rockslide that occurred in Switzerland about 3,200 years ago, according to new research
6 February 2020
The Cerro Caquilluco–Cerrillos Negros rock avalanches in Peru
The Cerrillos Negros rock avalanche, one of a number in of such events in S. Peru, had a volume of 10 cubic kilometres and traveled for about 43 km
5 December 2019
The Blackhawk rock avalanche – insights from imagery
Regular correspondent funkenbeachin has used ESA Sentinel multispectral satellite data to facilitate analysis of the Blackhawk rock avalanche
5 November 2019
The Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
The 5 km long ancient, earthquake triggered (?) Tagarma rock avalanche in the Pamir-western Himalayan syntaxis of the Tibetan Plateau
29 October 2019
Landslide movement mechanisms: evidence from longitudinal ridges on Mars
Longitudinal ridges: a new study (Magnarini et al. 2019) of a massive landslide on Mars provides insights into the movement mechanisms of rock avalanches
17 September 2019
Landslides and air blasts
A new analysis of the air blast generated by the 2008 Wenjia rock avalanche suggests that it generated the windspeeds of a Force 12 hurricane, and that the impacts extended far beyond the margins of the landslide
12 June 2019
The 2017 Nayong rock avalanche: an analysis using drone and seismic data
An analysis by Zhu et al (2019) of the dynamics of the 2017 Nayong rock avalanche in China, using a combination of seismic data and drone imagery
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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