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9 July 2015
Mount Kinabalu: the day the mountain shook
The Straits Times in Singapore has published a detailed account of the Mount Kinabalu earthquake and rockfalls from the perspective of the school party that was struck by the debris on the mountain slopes.
8 June 2015
The Mount Kinabalu rockfall on Friday
The Mount Kinabalu rockfall on Friday, induced by a M=6.0 earthquake, is now known to have killed 19 people, including school children from Singapore
5 June 2015
Malaysia earthquake: early reports of seismically-triggered landslides
Early reports suggest that the M=6.0 Malaysia earthquake this morning may have triggered landslides and rockfalls, especially on Mount Kinabalu, where five climbers are thought to have been killed.
30 April 2015
Upper Bhote Kosi: videos of the damage and rockfalls in northern Nepal
Bhuwan Sharma has posted a series of videos on his youtube channel showing rockfalls and building damage in the Upper Bhote Kosi valley in Nepal
13 April 2015
Review of a paper: progressive failure leading to a rockfall in Catalonia, Spain
An important new paper by Royan et al (2015) has used terrestrial LiDAR to examine progressive failure of a rockslope in Spain.
10 March 2015
Review of a paper – the 27th February 2014 San Leo landslide in northern Italy
In a newly published paper, Lisa Borgatti and colleagues describe the February 2014 landslide that affected the historical town of San Leo in northern Italy, providing both a description of the event and a historical context. Landslides will be a major threat to this historical site in the coming decades
7 March 2015
New video: an excavator hit by a self-induced rockfall
A video on Youtube shows an excavator triggering a rockfall that the strikes the machine. The operator had a lucky escape,
9 October 2014
China: a new rockfall video from Guiyang, Guizhou and images of landslides from the Yunnan earthquake in August
A new rockfall video has appeared on youtube showing a collapse in Guiyang, China. In addition, some new images are now available of landslides from the Yunnan earthquake
7 October 2014
Landslides in the movies part 1: The Croods
Part 1 of a series looking at how landslides are depicted in movies. This edition looks at a rockfall sequence in the animated movie The Croods (2013)
21 July 2014
Maoxian County landslide: a dramatic video of a fatal rockslide
On Thursday a rockslide occurred in Maoxian County in Sichuan Province, China. The terrifying moments of the landslide were captured on a dashboard camera
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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