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 February I highlighted a Sixth Tone article about the extraordinary landslide cluster that was triggered by Typhoon Gaemi in Hunan Province in China between 26 and 28 July 2024. A […]
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The devastating July 2024 landslides in the Zixing region of Hunan 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. There is a really terrific article on the website of Sixth Tone that describes the aftermath of devastating landslides that struck the Zixing region of Hunan Province in China on 27-28 July […]
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The 16 October 2022 Cilan Landslide in Taiwan
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In a paper just published in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Chang et al. (2025) describe the 16 October 2022 Cilan Landslide in Taiwan. The research is fascinating, using […]
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The April 2024 landslide cluster in Jiangwan, Guangdong 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. In April 2024, Jiangwan Town, which lies in the Shaoguan City administrative area of Guangdong Province, China suffered extremely heavy rainfall, triggering landslides and floods that caused extensive damage. A new paper […]
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Precursory activity for the 8 February 2025 Jinping 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. An interesting aspect of the 8 February 2025 Jinping landslide in Sichuan Province is the timing. Yibin has a strongly seasonal rainfall pattern – annual average rainfall is reportedly about 1,195 mm, […]
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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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The Suoertou landslide, and other earthflows, on the eastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Some of the most extraordinary landslides have occurred on and around the Tibetan Plateau. The active tectonics and steep terrain leads to a high level of mass movements, which are then preserved […]
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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 […]