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20 September 2016
A science story that just won’t die: the Canary Island Megatsunami scare rears its head once more
Like a zombie that refuses to die, the Canary Islands megatsunami scare story has once again re-emerged to the normal hysterical headlines
22 August 2015
Mount Rainier debris flows, 13th August 2015
On 13th August a series of debris flows occurred on the flanks of Mount Rainier in Washington State, USA. These glacier collapse events were captured on video, photographs & seismic instruments
17 November 2014
Markagunt: A truly gigantic gravity landslide (2000 cubic kilometres!)
A new paper in Geology describes for the first time the Markagunt gravity slide – a c.2000 square kilometre landslide deposit in Utah, USA that occurred about 22 million years ago.
24 July 2014
Askja: a very large volcanic landslide in Iceland
This week a very large landslide occurred on the flanks of the Askja stratovolcano in Iceland. Initial estimates are that is over 25 million cubic metres. and that it generated tsunami waves in the lake at the toe that were over 50 m high.
7 April 2013
Future trends in natural hazard losses – the Powerpoint file from my Geographical Association 2013 conference talk
A talk from the Geographical Association annual conference on future losses from natural hazards, focusing on storms, floods, earthquakes and volcanoes
25 February 2013
Rockfalls shaking a volcanic lava dome apart (including a dramatic video)
James Reynolds has collected a remarkable video of rockfall activity on Paluweh volcano in Indonesia as seismic events shake the lava dome
2 November 2012
Landslides in Art Part 16 – Dan Holdsworth Part 1
The latest installment of the landslides in art series, featuring the work of photographer Dan Holdsworth
15 June 2012
Halema’uma’u volcanic vent rockfall video
A neat video of the collapse of the west rim of the Halema’uma’u volcanic vent
4 October 2011
Geological evidence for a large landslide in Tenerife
A brief review of a new paper that describes a newly discovered catastrophic landslide deposit in Tenerife.
5 January 2011
Google Ngrams – the use of the word “landslide”
Google now has about a million books online dating from 1500 to 2008. An interesting tool that they have provided, and which is great fun with which to play, is the NGram viewer, which allows the user to search for, and graph, the occurrence of specific words through time in these texts. Note that the data are presented as the use of the word as a percentage of the total words in the …
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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