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10 February 2012
Friday fun: a new landslide video and a remarkable escape from a rockfall
As a bit of light-hearted relief from the Philippines and Papua New Guinea landslides, here are two interesting landslide items. First, with a hat-tip to Greg Springer, there is a new landslide video on Youtube. It is another good one (despite the music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Px-73K_4SU According to the Youtube page “The landslide occurred summer 2011 in Athens County, Ohio during construction of a new road.” I will update the ultimate landslide …
9 January 2012
So what would you do…
An interesting video of the reaction of people standing on a beach to an earthquake.
23 December 2011
The latest events in the Christchurch earthquake sequence
An update on the Christchurch earthquake sequence this morning
9 December 2011
Away from AGU – images of rockfalls as they occurred during the June 2011 Christchurch earthquake
As AGU 2011 draws to a close (and I still have some blog posts to write about the meeting), I need to try to catch up on a substantial backlog of landslide news. So, to start off, Monica Gowan from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch has sent these two pictures of the rockfalls as they occurred in the Sumner area of New Zealand on 13th June. Please note that …
27 October 2011
Spectacular rockfall video on the Franz Josef glacier – a lucky escape for a tour party
A spectacular new video has appeared of a rockfall onto the Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand.
9 October 2011
More information about the Cornwall cliff collapse video
More information has emerged about the cliff collapse video from Cormwall, SW England
7 October 2011
Watch this – surely the very best ever cliff collapse video
Surely the greatest ever rock cliff collapse video!
8 September 2011
Videos of a large rockfall near to Christchurch
Tow new videos showing rockfalls, triggered by clearance crews, in the Sumner area of New Zealand.
5 August 2011
Landslides from the Christchurch earthquakes part 4: large-scale cliff collapses
Part four in the series posts examining landslides from the Christchurch earthquakes. This edition looks at large-scale cliff collapses.
2 August 2011
Images of landslides from the Christchurch earthquakes part 2: evil dancing boulders
Part two of the series of posts on landslides from the Christchurch earthquake sequence. This post shows rockfalls from the Port Hills area.
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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