The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Long term readers of this blog will know that I have a deep passion for understanding the patterns of fatal landslides in time and space. Some of my own work has focused […]
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The Pissouri landslide in Cyprus
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. There are two very interesting urban landslides making headlines at the moment. One is the Rancho Palos Verdes landslide in California – there is a well-informed description of this ongoing crisis on […]
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The 7 August 2024 Pedersen Lagoon landslide and tsunami
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 5 am local time on 7 August 2024, a large landslide occurred on the rock slopes above Pedersen Lagoon in Alaska, triggering a local tsunami. Whilst this major event is […]
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The 20 August 2024 landslide at the Teesta Stage V power house at Baluatar, Sikkim
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 20 August 2024, a landslide occurred on the banks of the Teesta River near to Baluatar in Sikkim, northern India. This large failure was widely captured on mobile phone videos that […]
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Two large landslides in Gisborne, New Zealand
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The Gisborne area of New Zealand was severely impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023, an event that triggered many thousands of landslides in the area. One effect of such large events […]
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Planet Labs imagery of the 30 July 2024 Wayanad landslides in Kerala, India
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Recovery operations continue at the site of the 30 July 2024 Wayanad landslides in Kerala, SW India. The official loss of life is 231 people as of 17 August, with reports indicating […]
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The 1916 coal waste landslide at Pentre in South Wales
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Recently, I stumbled across a small gallery of images on the Our Heritage site of Rhondda Cynon Taf that show a major coal waste landslide that struck the South Wales village of […]
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Fatal landslides to the end of July 2024
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The trend of high rates of occurrence for global fatal landslides in 2024 has continued through July. My provisional data for July 2024 has 95 events occurring worldwide in July, with 1,167 […]
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The 9 August 2024 landslide at the Kiteezi garbage dump in Kampala, Uganda
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 9 August 2024, a significant landslide struck the Kiteezi garbage dump in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. At the time of writing, the reported loss of life has reached 21 […]
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An interesting landslide mechanism from Iceland
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Iceland Monitor has a very interesting article about a small landslide that occurred during heavy rainfall 0n 13 to 14 July 2024 on the southeastern side of Skíðaskálinn in Hveradalir, Iceland. This […]