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16 September 2011
Catching up part 1: The landslide at Pingtung in Taiwan
Further information about the Pingtung landslide in Taiwan in late August
5 September 2011
Without doubt the most amazing landslide of the year so far – Pingtung County, Taiwan
First information about the Laufoshan Landslide in Taiwan, which occurred on 29th-31st August during typhoon Nanmadol. It has a reported runout distance of 12 km!
23 June 2011
The seismic signature of a large landslide
A little under two years ago, on 9th August 2009, Typhoon Morakot triggered a catastrophic landslide that destroyed the village of Hsiaolin in southern Taiwan, killing over 400 people. I covered this event in detail at the time and later that same year visited the site. There is a presentation about the typhoon and landslide online that can be downloaded. The journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Science has just …
16 November 2010
A round up of interesting natural hazards stories – Taiwan landslides, the Pakistan floods, the Attabad landslide, and risk management in Canada
Occasionally I post a round up of stories on natural hazards, mostly on landslides, that have caught my eye in the last few days. Here is the latest set: 1. Taiwan landslide hazard management Taiwan is one of the most landslide prone places on Earth as a result of its climate and geological setting. In the last 18 months it has suffered three high profile slope accidents – the extraordinary …
24 October 2010
Landslides from typhoon Megi in Taiwan
The passage of typhoons past or across Taiwan often leads to the generation of exceptionally high rainfall totals that, when combined the steep topography and weak rocks, inevitably triggers extensive landsliding. The late season typhoon Megi, whose erratic course meant that it somewhat unexpectedly brought heavy rainfall to Taiwan at the end of last week, was no exception.
23 May 2010
Meanwhile, elsewhere
Although all eyes, and increasingly those of the media (which is showing considerable interest in this blog), are on Attabad, other landslides are happening around the world as we enter the rainy season in many landslide prone areas of the Northern Hemisphere. In the last few days a number of significant landslide events have occurred: 1. A landslide-induced rail crash in China this morning.Xinhua reports that an 8000 cubic metre, …
26 April 2010
The mechanism of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan
That bastion of “quality” journalism, the Daily Mail, has an article about the Highway 3 landslide that includes a set of high quality images of the site: tic The article correctly identifies the failure as being a dip-slope slide: “The hill had a dip slop [sic – should be slope] on the side nearest the motorway. The other side of dip slopes are steep and irregular, while the slope itself …
Images of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan
I have still not managed to track down some really good images of the Highway 3 landslide in Taiwan, but for now here are two pictures from the China Post: More later I hope.
25 April 2010
Aerial video film of the Highway landslide in Taiwan
Youtube now has a helicopter video of the Highway landslide in Taiwan: It is an extraordinary landslide, apparently being a deep translational slide that has displaced a great raft of material fronted by the cutslope shown in the previous post. I will be interested to see some decent images in the morning!
The location of the Taiwan highway landslide
I have I think identified the location of the Taiwan highway landslide today. Based upon this image (source): The location appears to be here: It appears that the failure has occurred on the cutslope shown in the centre of the image, with the margin of the slide being close to the bridge (which can be seen in the first image on top of the debris). Thus, it appears to be …
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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