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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
23 April 2013
New landslide videos and resources
A round up post of some new landslide videos and other resources
27 July 2012
The amazing vanishing garden
An interesting retrogressive landslide causing coastal erosion on Whidbey Island, USA
31 October 2008
New book: Landslides and Engineering Geology of the Seattle, Washington, Area
Seattle is an area that has both a long history of landslides and a long history of landslide research. For example, there is a 1974 USGS report online examining landslides triggered in a 1972 rainfall event. In 1996-7 a series of large storms triggered multiple damaging slides in Seattle. As a result, the USGS and Seattle agreed to start a major project to produce a range of landslide hazard maps …
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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