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2 February 2018
Landslides in the Maipo Valley, Chile
As part of our Newton Fund project, I spent a few days in January looking at the giant landslides of the Maipo Valley in Chile. These are some of my photos of these amazing rockslides and rock avalanches
4 January 2018
The Karrat Fjord rock avalanche: a new paper examining the 3D geometry
In a paper just published in the journal Landslides, Gauthier et al. 2017 use a 3D reconstruction to estimate that the tsunamigenic June 2017 Karrat Fjord rock avalanche in Greenland had a volume of 58 million cubic metres.
2 October 2017
Karnali Highway in Nepal: the danger of collecting landslide videos (viewer beware)
A new video on Youtube, which shows a rockslide on the Karnali Highway in Nepal, provides a brutal illustration of the dangers of filming landslides
1 September 2017
Stunning, unbelievable, high resolution footage of the Zhangjiawan rockslide
Extraordinary high resolution video footage has been posted on Liveleak showing the initiation of the Zhangjiawan rockslide in China on Monday
29 August 2017
Zhangjiawan landslide: a massive rockslope collapse with 35 fatalities caught on a remarkable video
Yesterday the Zhangjiawan landslide, a massive rockslope collapse in Guizhou,China,caused 35 fatalities. The landslide was caught on a remarkable video.
16 June 2017
NTSB report: train collision with a landslide in Northfield, Vermont
In the USA, the NTSB has released a report into a major derailment at Northfield in Vermont, caused by a collision with a small rockslide
16 May 2017
The Pas de l’Ours landslide: an actively moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of France
The Pas de l’Ours landslide: a very large and potentially-problematic actively-moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of France
15 May 2017
Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County: a large rockslide in Tennessee
This weekend a classic and reasonably large planar rockslide blocked Highway 70 at Clinch Mountain in Hawkins County, Tennessee
21 November 2016
Siirt in Turkey: a desperate race to save the lives of miners buried in a landslide (with a video)
On Thursday a large rockslide in a copper mine at Siirt in Turkey buried 16 miners. Remarklably, the landslide appears to have been recorded on a video.
14 October 2016
Aletsch landslide: significant acceleration of movement
The movement rate of the Aletsch landslide in Switzerland has increased significantly in the last few days, and is now about 80 cm per day
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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