Researchers have figured out how rumbling thunder turns to seismic waves and how this shaking could be used to reveal subsurface geology.
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Some High-Threat Volcanoes Are Severely Understudied
Scientists have little understanding of where magma is stored along the Cascade Volcanic Arc or how its volcanoes could affect population centers.
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The deadly 20 November 2023 landslide near Wrangell in Alaska, USA
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. At about 9 pm local time on 20 November 2023, a large landslide occurred near to Wrangell in Alaska, USA. At the time of writing, three people have been confirmed to have […]
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Landslides triggered by the 17 November 2023 M=6.8 earthquake in Sarangani in the Philippines
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 November 2023 at 4:14 pm local time, an Mw=6.8 earthquake struck the the area of Sarangani in Davao Occidental in the Philippines. The epicentre was located offshore at a depth […]
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Climate Change Narrows the Window for Prescribed Fires
Longer, drier summers may mean fewer opportunities for firefighters to safely burn would-be wildfire fuel in the western United States.
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Ongoing efforts to rescue 40 people from a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand, India
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In northern India, operations are underway to rescue 40 people who have been trapped in a tunnel that has collapsed in Uttarakhand. The tunnel caved in on Sunday 12 November. The workers […]
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The Woda landslide on the Jinsha River
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 […]
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Machine Learning Identifies Source Volcanoes of Ash Deposits
Tracing ash layers from explosive eruptions back to their source volcanoes is needed to evaluate hazards to population and aviation, a problem addressed by a new machine learning classification method.
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Rongjiang: the 4 June 2022 landslide-induced, high speed railway accident in Guizhou, 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 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 […]
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Revolucionando la ciencia de los terremotos en Cascadia
Un nuevo centro reunirá a científicos de sismos para estudiar la zona de subducción de Cascadia y aclarar los peligros sísmicos.