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7 February 2014
The Seti River debris flow in Nepal – what was the role of the smaller landslide downstream?
An review of the role that the smaller landslide played in the Seti River debris flow in Nepal in 2012, which killed 72 people
25 January 2014
The Seti River rock avalanche in Nepal – a new image from the International Space Station
An astronaut from International Space Station has captured a stunning photograph of the Seti River landslide in Nepal
16 January 2014
Aoraki / Mount Cook: A new survey of its height after the 1991 landslide
A GNS / University of Otago expedition has just resurveyed the height of Aoraki / Mount Cook after the 1991 rock avalanche. The mountain has lost 30 m.
31 August 2013
Another large rock avalanche in Alaska
Colin Stark and Goran Ekstrom have detected another spectacular rock avalanche in Alaska. It occurred on 25th July near to Mount Jarvis.
22 March 2013
A very important new paper – detecting large landslides using seismic data
Goran Ekstrom and Colin Stark have today published a paper in Science on the detection of large landslides using seismic data. This provides the potential to create a catalogue of these events and to analyse, for the first time, their dynamics
14 March 2013
Managing landslide hazard – an example from Franz Josef in New Zealand
A recent paper (Barth 2013) has highlighted a deforming slope near to Franz Josef in New Zealand. This rather nicely highlights the difficulties of assessing the hazard in steep mountain terrain
24 February 2013
An intrepretation of the Mount Dixon rock avalanche in New Zealand using satellite imagery
This post provides an interpretation of the Mount Dixon rock avalanche using NASA EO-1 ALI imagery collected shortly after the event. It shows that the landslide went through a dramatic transition from rock avalanche to sliding
12 February 2013
The full video of the Mount Dixon rock avalanche from Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand
The full video of the rock avalanche on Mount Dixon in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is now available. It is astounding!
29 January 2013
A round up of just a few of the recent landslide events
In the last few weeks there has been an unusual amount of landslide activity worldwide. This is just a few of the more interesting events, there are many more that I’ll try to cover in the next few days. Thanks to everyone who has pointed them out to e, and apologies if I have not acknowledged your contribution or covered your story yet. Please do keep them coming! 1. The …
28 January 2013
The video of the Mount Dixon (Aoraki Mount Cook) rock avalanche in motion
. At the time of the rock avalanche on Mount Dixon in Aoraki Mount Cook in New Zealand last week it was reported that at least one of the occupants of the Plateau Hut caught the video in action. This has proven to be the case – 3 News NZ has obtained the footage from the climber – Neil Wiltshire – and has a nice report that features it. At …
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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