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NASA卫星拍摄的超级台风利奇马的照片。
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用雷达追踪不幸被困在热带气旋中的鸟类和昆虫

by Nathaniel Scharping 5 December 20235 December 2023

热带气旋可以卷走鸟类和昆虫,并将它们带到很远的地方。

Posted inThe Landslide Blog

The Woda landslide on the Jinsha River

by Dave Petley 10 November 202310 November 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. An article in the journal Natural Hazards (Yao et al. 2023) examines the Woda landslide on the Jinsha River. The study tries to determine the potential impact of the failure of a […]

The aftermath of the landslide that caused the 2022 high speed train crash at Rongjiang.
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Rongjiang: the 4 June 2022 landslide-induced, high speed railway accident in Guizhou, China

by Dave Petley 8 November 20238 November 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 4 June 2022, a high speed train traveling at about 250 km per hour (155 miles per hour) struck a 200 cubic metre landslide that had inundated the track close to […]

Google Earth imagery taken a few days after the 5 September 2022 Luding Earthquake, showing landslides triggered by the earthquake.
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Landslides triggered by the 5 September 2022 Ms=6.8 Luding Earthquake in China

by Dave Petley 3 October 20233 October 2023

The 5 September 2023 Ms=6.8 Luding Earthquake in China killed an estimated 118 people, of whom 80% were killed by landslides.

The 27 September 2023 rockslide at Chongzhou in Sichuan Province, China.
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A dramatic landslide video from Chongzhou in Sichuan Province, China

by Dave Petley 29 September 202329 September 2023

A small truck had a lucky escape when a powerful rockslide hit a road in Chongzhou in Sichuan Province in China

Super Typhoon Lekima imaged from space by a NASA satellite
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Radar Tracks Unfortunate Creatures Trapped in Tropical Cyclones

by Nathaniel Scharping 27 September 20235 December 2023

Cyclones can sweep up birds and insects and transport them great distances.

Depiction of the proposed approach to Critical Zone Science.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Earth’s Critical Zone Remains a Mystery Without its People

by Larissa A. Naylor, Jennifer A. J. Dungait, Paul D. Hallett, Neil Munro, Alasdair Stanton and Timothy A. Quine 19 September 20238 January 2024

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals may only be possible if human activities are central to critical zone science.

Google Earth image of the site of the 2014 mine waste landslide at Dagushan in China.
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The 12 November 2014 mine waste landslide at Dagushan in Anshan, China

by Dave Petley 18 September 202318 September 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 12 November 2014, an 8.45 million cubic metre landslide occurred in a mine waste pile at the Dagushan open-pit iron mine in Anshan, China. The failure occurred in a a huge […]

Google Earth perspective view showing the Temi landslide in the foreground and the Batong hydropower station about 4 km downstream.
Posted inThe Landslide Blog

The Temi landslide – an ancient, valley-blocking failure in Sichuan Province, China

by Dave Petley 21 August 202321 August 2023

Xie et al. 2023 describe the ancient, 35 million cubic metre, valley-blocking Temi landslide in China.

Two maps of the study area.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

A New Perspective on Aerosols and Emissions Over Northern China

by Ping Yang 15 June 202314 June 2023

During 2013-2019, a distinct seasonality for trends of aerosol concentrations and optical properties was found over Northern China.

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