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13 November 2013
New landslide video: the luckiest dog in the world!
Back in August a video captured a mudslide striking a kennel in Kentucky. So how did the dog survive?
23 October 2013
Review of a paper: landslide scenarios for a large Seattle earthquake
A new paper models landslide occurrence for a large Seattle earthquake in western USA. The results suggest that the effects of landslides would be extremely serious
21 October 2013
Pure geovandalism “justified” as rockfall prevention in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah
Three men who destroyed a natural rock formation in Goblin Valley State Park, Utah justified their act of vandalism as rockfall protection. It was not.
2 October 2013
A selfless act of bravery – a father saves his daughter by shielding her with his body
In a selfless act of bravery, a father saved the life of 13-year-old Gracie Johnson by shielding her from rockslide debris in Colorado
1 October 2013
Five people killed in rockslide on Mount Princeton in Chaffee County, Colorado
A rockslide on Monday on the flanks of Mount Princeton in Chaffee County, Colorado killed five people and left a teenage girls with a broken leg
26 September 2013
The costs to the mining industry of landslides – examples from Brazil and the USA
Two recent examples, from Brazil and Utah, demonstrate the potentially enormous financial impacts of landslides on the mining industry
13 September 2013
A video of riverbank collapses in Utah
On September 11th, an interesting video of a series of flood-induced riverbank collapses in Wahweap Creek in Southern Utah was captured by David Rankin
9 September 2013
A large mudflow at Stehekin in Washington State, USA
The North Cascades National Park Service has released some dramatic photographs of a debris flow that struck Stehekin in Washington State on Thursday
31 August 2013
Another large rock avalanche in Alaska
Colin Stark and Goran Ekstrom have detected another spectacular rock avalanche in Alaska. It occurred on 25th July near to Mount Jarvis.
13 June 2013
NASA Imagery of the Bingham Canyon landslide
NASA have collected an excellent satellite image of the Bingham Canyon landslide in Utah, USA
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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