The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The extraordinary landslide year of 2024 is now complete, so I’m able to provide my initial analysis of the fatal events that have occurred. Remember that this is an analysis only of […]
Hazards & Disasters
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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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Magmatic Fluids and Melts May Lie Beneath Dormant German Volcanoes
New processing strategies applied to old seismic data reveal potential pockets of magmatic fluids or melts from the upper mantle.
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Improving Earthquake Early Warning Access for the Deaf Community
Earthquake early warning systems are rarely accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. A group of scientists is working to change that.
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The 1 January 2025 embankment failure on the Bridgewater Canal at Dunham Massey
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 1 January 2025, a major embankment failure occurred on the Bridgewater Canal close Dunham Massey in NW England. The local newspaper, Altrincham Today, has a nice article about this event and […]
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Rewinding the Fault: Stress Perturbations Promote Back-Propagating Ruptures
Free surface reflection and fault geometric asperities can excite backward propagation in the form of an interface wave or high-order re-rupture.
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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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Alaska’s Mount Veniaminof Volcano Is Stealthy—Here’s Why
New research explains why Mount Veniaminof erupts without the usual warming signs.
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Climate Change Amplified the Effects of Extreme Rainfall in Nepal
A new study indicates that rapid urbanization and deforestation also contributed to devastation caused by floods and landslides in 2024.