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17 December 2015
First news of a rock avalanche on Mount James Turner yesterday
Drew Brayshaw has tweeted images of a dramatic large rock avalanche that occurred on the flanks of Mount James Turner yesterday
9 November 2015
Big news on the Tonzang landslide in Burma – probably the largest non-seismic landslide for a decade?
Colin Stark & Goran Ekstrom have found the seismic record for the Tonzang landslide in Burma. At 395 million tonnes it may be the largest non-seismic landslide for a decade
20 October 2015
The Mount Steele rock avalanche: more details from the seismic data
Further analysis of the Mount Steele rock avalanche in the Yukon of Canada shows that the landslide had a volume of about 20 million cubic metres
19 October 2015
First announcement: a giant rock avalanche on the flanks of Mount Steele in the Yukon last week
I can reveal here for the first time that last week a giant rock avalanche was detected by Colin Stark and Goram Ekstrom on the flanks of Mount Steele in the Yukon, Canada
13 October 2015
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana is a giant prehistoric rockslide that has created a large lake in the Beartooth Mountains
22 September 2015
The 1991 Touzhai rock avalanche in China
In September 1991 the Touzhai rock avalanche in China killed over 200 people. In a paper just published, Xing et al. (2015) provide a detailed description and the outcomes of modeling of the runout of the landslide
9 September 2015
West Salt Creek Landslide: Colorado Geological Survey report
The Colorado Geological Survey has produced a detailed report on the 2014 West Salt Creek landslide, which killed three men. Surprisingly, this was a high mobility rock avalanche that initiated as a rotational landslide.
15 July 2015
The Judgement Cliff Rock Avalanche in Jamaica
In June 1692 the Port Royal earthquake triggered the Judgement Cliff Rock Avalanche in Jamaica, killing at least 19 people
5 May 2015
The Langtang ice and rock avalanche in the Gorkha Earthquake
Satellite imagery and on site reports suggest that the Langtang ice and rock avalanche occurred when a block freefell about 700 m before fragmenting to generate a blast of ice, rock and air.
8 July 2014
Komansu rock avalanche: a landslide with exceptional runout
The new paper by Robinson et al. 2014 describes the Komansu rock avalanche in Kyrgyzstan. This is an exceptionally large landslide that traveled about 28 km
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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