The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At 11:50 am on Saturday 8 February 2025, the Jinping landslide struck in Junlian County in the Yibin administrative area of Sichuan Province in China. Triggered by heavy rainfall, the landslide is […]
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Tracing Metals from Earth to Water to Life in the Yellow River
The mix of metals in China’s Yellow River stays relatively similar as it moves from the upper continental crust to biological life.
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The 22 February 2023 fatal landslide at the Xinjing open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At 13:12 local time on 22 February 2023, a large landslide occurred at the Xinjing open-pit coal mine in Inner Mongolia. The failure killed 53 people and injured a further 6 individuals. […]
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Checking in on three earlier fatal landslides
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 […]
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Past Fracture Damage Can Inhibit Earthquake Slip
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.
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The deeply intriguing 1 September 2022 Huzhu landslide in Qinghai Province, China
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, […]
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The 22 January 2024 Liangshui landslide in the Wumeng Mountain Area of China
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 […]
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Patterns of fatal landslides in Shaanxi Province, China
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 […]
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A first analysis of the 17 July 2024 Wuyigou Landslide 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. 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 […]
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The evolution of slope failure in a large open pit coal mine
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 […]