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 […]
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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 […]
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The 28 July 2024 landslide at Yuelin village in 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. On 28 July 2024, a landslide struck Yuelin village, located in the Hengyang administrative area of Hunan Province. The landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall induced by the remnants of Typhoon Gaemi, […]
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The 17 July 2024 landslide in Zigui County, China
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. A remarkable landslide video was shared widely yesterday on social media, showing a landslide that occurred on 17 July 2024 in Zigui County, China. There is quite a good version of this […]
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Debris flow hazards in urban environments – an example from South Korea
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 paper (Lee et al. 2024 – available online as a pdf) has recently been published in the International Journal of Erosion Control Engineering, which considers landslide problems in expanding urban […]