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10 November 2010
Predicting and cutting landslide risk in developing countries
Recently, Professor Malcolm Anderson of Bristol University presented a talk on predicting and cutting landslide risk in developing countries at a Set Squared conference on the impact of university research. This presentation is available online on Youtube and should be visible below. Unfortunately the video does not have the slides, but nonetheless it is a very useful presentation: The Set Squared initiative has a website of it’s own here. The work underlying this presentation has a page …
4 November 2010
The Rissa landslide – new (old) video available online
In April 1978 an remarkable quick clay landslide was caught in action by two amateur cameramen. A large section of this video has now appeared online.
29 October 2010
An amazing landslide video from Manaus in Brazil
On 17th October an amazing quick clay type landslide occurred at Porto Chibatão in Manaus, Brazil. The slide was caught in action by a CCTV camera. This video is featured here. It is one of the most impressive landslide events every caught on camera,
10 September 2010
Italian debris flood video
Thanks to Ivan Montanari for highlighting this one. Youtube has an extraordinary video of a debris flood that appears to have occurred yesterday at Atrani on the Amalfi Coast in Italy: The video makes a slowish start, so keep watching. This is the first debris flow of cars that I have seen on video…! This is a Google Earth perspective image of Atrani: I guess it is not hard to …
25 August 2010
Hunza debris flow video
You probably guessed that I am on holiday this week (normal service will be resumed at the weekend), but I thought I’d quickly post this new debris flow video from Hunza in Pakistan. The interesting but starts at about 1 minute 15 seconds:
6 April 2010
Dust cloud video indicates substantial numbers of landslides from the Baja California earthquake in Mexico
The Mw=7.2 earthquake on the Laguna Salada fault in Mexico on Sunday was certainly sufficiently large and shallow (10 km) to generate landslides, and there are areas of mountains that provide enough relief for slides to develop. To date the number of reports of slides is quite limited, but CNN has this amazing amateur footage of the mountains to the south of Mexicali. The huge dust clouds were almost certainly …
24 October 2008
Forced to flee
IRIN, the UN Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs, has produced a rather nice video about the impact of lahars (a landslide in comparatively young volcanic materials) in the Philippines. The landslide occurred during Typhoon Durian (known in the Philippines as typhoon Reming) in 2006. Wikipedia image of the track of typhoon Durian (Reming) in 2006. The orange dots indicate the locations at which the typhoon was at its …
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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