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14 June 2011
Two riverbank collapse videos – don’t miss these!
Dave highlights two videos of riverbank collapse events in action.
9 June 2011
Some notable landslides in the last week
As I noted in my previous post, we are now just entering the global landslide season. In the last week there has been a marked increase in significant landslides in the Northern Hemisphere. Clearly, during the summer I won’t be highlighting the vast majority of those that occur, but thought it would be interesting just to draw attention to just a few of those that have happened in the last …
4 June 2011
The Springhill Landslide in Utah – community action at its best
An overview of the Springhill landslide in Utah, which is progressively destroying a residential neighbourhood in a suburb outside Salt Lake City.
26 May 2011
Snake River landslide – update and images
A brief update on the recent landslide in the Snake River Canyon in Wyoming, USA
24 May 2011
New landslide susceptibility map for California
A brief examination of the new landslide susceptibility map for California
20 May 2011
Snake River landslide, Wyoming with an amazing (and very funny) time-lapse video of the movement
Images and a wonderful time-lapse video of a landslide in Snake River Canyon near Jackson, Wyoming
17 May 2011
Landslide wave video
A link to a Youtube video of a wave generated by a landslide into a waterbody in Washington State, USA
7 April 2011
An interesting new video of a landslide in action
A really great new video of a landslide in action in California – don’t miss it!
23 December 2010
Reports of landslides in California and Colombia
News reports coming out of Colombia this morning suggest that there has been yet another large landslide in that battered country. Colombia Reports is carrying a story that a landslide occurred yesterday in Santander Province in the north of the country. The landslide is reported to have struck a small hamlet between Rionegro and El Playon, destroying the a number of houses and reportedly burying 20 people.
17 December 2010
AGU Day 4: Debris flows and the Station Fire [improved in light of comments from Susan Cannon Cannon]
NB the text below has been updated to reflect some very helpful comments from Susan Cannon. Genuine thanks to her for her help. The AGU Fall meeting continues like an unstoppable rhino, with a dizzying amount of sessions and a rapidly developing sense that my brain has become full. However, I will highlight here just two talks yesterday from the public communication of natural hazards session, both about the potential …
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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