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The site of the 1 May 2024 landslide at Meilong in China. Note the rescue workers towards the lower end of the landslide, which provides a scale. Credit: Xinhua News
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

Checking in on three earlier fatal landslides

by Dave Petley 23 January 202523 January 2025

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. My regular scans of reports of landslides around the world has highlighted interesting updates on three events of the last year or so. The 14 December 2024 Lions Bay Landslide The Vancouver […]

Geologic map with symbols.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Past Fracture Damage Can Inhibit Earthquake Slip

by Åke Fagereng 19 December 202419 December 2024

Around the surface rupture of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, a new study documents an anti-correlation between pre-existing fracture damage and earthquake slip – implying that damage inhibited slip.

A Google Earth view of the 1 September 2022 Huzhu landslide in China, showing the two of the more mobile loess failures.
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

The deeply intriguing 1 September 2022 Huzhu landslide in Qinghai Province, China

by Dave Petley 19 December 202419 December 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Back in 2022, I wrote (on the old site) about a landslide that occurred on 1 September that year, a failure that is now known as the Huzhu landslide, in Qinghai Province, […]

The January 2024 Liangshui landslide in China.
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The 22 January 2024 Liangshui landslide in the Wumeng Mountain Area of China

by Dave Petley 17 December 202417 December 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 22 January 2024, the Liangshui landslide struck the Wumeng Mountain area of China, killing 44 people. I blogged about this significant event at the time, including the following Youtube video that […]

Posted inThe Landslide Blog

Patterns of fatal landslides in Shaanxi Province, China

by Dave Petley 15 November 202415 November 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. China is a highly landslide-prone country, but the distribution of failures is not even in time and space. One of the most landslide-prone areas in Shaanxi province, in the northwest of the […]

Google Earth image of the site of the 17 July 2024 Wuyigou Landslide in China.
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A first analysis of the 17 July 2024 Wuyigou Landslide in China

by Dave Petley 5 November 20245 November 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 17 July 2024, the Wuyigou landslide occurred on the banks of the Three Gorges reservoir in China. I posted about this landslide at the time, in part because it was caught […]

Google Earth image from August 2017 showing the failure at Fushun West OPM.
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The evolution of slope failure in a large open pit coal mine

by Dave Petley 10 October 202410 October 2024

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. I recently came across an interesting paper in the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and Environment (Hu et al. 2024) that explores the prediction of the time to failure of large slopes in […]

A strikingly blue lake surrounded by the snowcapped rock walls of a volcano.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Details About a Very Old Eruption and Flood

by Saima May Sidik 9 October 20249 October 2024

One of the most dramatic volcanic eruptions in history occurred more than 1,000 years ago. Scientists are still piecing together the aftermath.

月球表面的机器人着陆器
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嫦娥六号首次从月球背面采集样本并返回

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 1 October 20241 October 2024

这些样本可能为月球的形成和历史提供新的地质见解。

在这张江错的照片中,多云的天空在背景中的低矮山丘上投下阴影。中景的湖水呈现灰蓝绿色的色调。前景中,湖岸上生长着一簇簇棕褐色的小草,红色沙地上点缀着棱角分明的深色鹅卵石。
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哺乳动物的粪便保存了青藏高原的人类和气候历史

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 27 September 202427 September 2024

沉积物中的地球化学标记,包括来自人类和动物粪便的有机分子,帮助科学家们追寻吐蕃帝国的兴衰。

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