The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. A great deal has been written about the 24 May 2024 Kaokalam landslide in Papua New Guinea, although there remains considerable uncertainty too. For example, estimates of the loss of life continue […]
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The 6-8 June 2024 landslide at Teton Pass in Wyoming, USA
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Between 6 and 8 June 2024, a landslide destroyed a section of State Highway 22 along the Teton Pass in Wyoming. No lives were lost in this major landslide, although a motorcyclist […]
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Global fatal landslides in 2024 – the situation at the end of May
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I thought it would be useful to provide an update on the pattern of fatal landslides in 2024 to the end of May. Clearly, in the aftermath of the terrible 24 May […]
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Detecting landslides using seismic data in Switzerland
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. There has been a very interesting development in the detection of landslides using seismic data. The Swiss Seismological Service (SED), which has a very high quality network that monitors seismic events across […]
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New satellite imagery of the 11 May 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Just under a month ago, I wrote about the tailings failure at the Siana gold mine in Surigao del Norte, Philippines. Capella Space captured good radar imagery of the site. We now […]
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The 24 May 2024 landslide at Kaokalam in Enga province, Papua New Guinea
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 3 am on 24 May 2024, a large landslide occurred at Kaokalam, in the Muritaka area of Enga province in Papua New Guinea. The exact location of this event is […]
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The destruction of the Bronze Age settlement of Lajia in China
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Yesterday, I posted about a new paper (Shi et al. 2024) that describes the liquefaction landslide damage caused to villages in Gansu Province, triggered by the 18 December 2023 Ms=6.2 Jishishan earthquake. The paper is […]
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The Jishishan earthquake ripple hazard
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. A very interesting paper (Shi et al. 2024) has just been published, open access, in the journal Scientific Reports, describing an “earthquake ripple hazard”, a terminology that I have not come across […]
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Satellite images of the 11 May 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Satellite imagery has now become available of the tailings landslide that affected the Siana gold mine in the Philippines on 11 May 2024. An interesting image has been captured by Capella Space, […]
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Satellite imagery of the aftermath of flash flooding in Afghanistan – an example from Burkah in Baghlan Province
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In recent days, northern Afghanistan has been struck by devastating rainfall that has resulted in flash flooding. The most intense rainfall occurred on 10 to 11 May 2024, with a focus on […]