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2 February 2015
The Harbury tunnel and cutting landslide in Central England
A major landslide occurred in the Harbury cutting and tunnel in Warwickshire, England on Saturday, blocking an important railway line
19 December 2014
My latest paper: Patterns of movement at the Ventnor landslide on the Isle of Wight
In my latest paper, just published in the journal Landslides, my co-authors and I examine monitoring data for the Ventnor landslide in southern England
7 April 2014
Two new landslide videos: Hannover Point, UK and Jalisco, Mexico
A large landslide in Jalisco, Mexico Liveleak has this new video of a large landslide that apparently occurred in Jalisco in Mexico over the weekend. I know no more details, but the impatient driver of the red car was lucky that the landslide did not occur 20 seconds later: .. A small landslide at Hannover Point Meanwhile there is a much better quality video of a somewhat less dramatic landslide …
20 March 2014
Dawlish: inducing landslide failure using firehoses
At Dawlish in SW England Network Rail are trying to mitigate a landslide by inducing failure using fire hoses
11 March 2014
Forthcoming lectures: Leeds (tonight!), Durham, and Cockermouth
Details of three forthcoming public lectures that I am presenting or chairing, in Leeds, Durham and Cockermouth
17 February 2014
New paper: the role of fatigue in rockfalls
A review of our new paper (Brain et al 2014) that examines the role of fatigue in rockfall generation
8 January 2014
Remarkable coastal change from the recent UK storms
It is becoming clear that the recent UK storms have markedly altered the rock coasts of parts of England
4 January 2014
Hastings rockfall: dramatic new landslide videos from southern England
New videos have appeared on Youtube over the last 24 hours of a large, dramatic rock cliff collapse at Rock-A-Nore near Hastings in East Sussex, England
5 November 2013
Landslides in Art Part 19: Geoff Townson
Geoff Townson is an artist who is also a trained geologist based in Dorset, England, so it is unsurprising that much of his work features landslides
4 April 2013
Caveat Emptor part 2 – the end game
Over the last few months a house in Torquay, England has been progressively lost to a landslide. This post presents a series of photos of its collapse
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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