After 11-years of monitoring a slow-moving landslide and its shear zone in Norway, scientists reveal a complex pattern of creep bursts that require a rethink of the driving mechanisms.
Hazards & Disasters
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The growing landslide threat to the Snake Pass in northern England
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. BBC News ran an item yesterday about the Snake Pass, the major road that links the two major northern English cities of Manchester and Sheffield. The Snake Pass is a beautiful highway, […]
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Fatal landslides in January 2025
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In January 2025, I have provisionally recorded 34 fatal landslides worldwide, resulting in 156 fatalities. As usual, there is further work to do to this data to get a definitive list. The […]
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The 3-4 October 2023 Sikkim GLOF: drivers, causes and impacts of a multihazard cascade
Our new paper in the journal Science provides a detailed analysis of the causes and consequences of the terrible landslide-triggered Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) that struck northern India late in 2023. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. […]
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The 17 December 2024 Takhini River landslide and river ice tsunami, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
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 December 2024, the 118,000 cubic metre silt and clay Takhini River landslide occurred on a cut bank of the Takhini River, 25 km northwest of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The landslide, […]
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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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An Atmospheric Pattern Over the Pacific Influences Western U.S. Wildfire Risk
The West Pacific pattern correlates with high pressure, increased temperature, decreased precipitation, and higher burned area during autumn in the western United States.
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Checking in on three earlier fatal landslides
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. My regular scans of reports of landslides around the world has highlighted interesting updates on three events of the last year or so. The 14 December 2024 Lions Bay Landslide The Vancouver […]
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Landslide risk in La Paz, Bolivia
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. AFP has posted a very good overview of the hazards posed by landslides in the capital city of Bolivia, La Paz (unfortunately it cannot be embedded). Located at a high elevation, characterised […]
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The looming threat of landslides in the wildfire damaged areas of Los Angeles County
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. As Los Angeles recovers from the dreadful wildfires that have destroyed parts of the county, awareness is growing of the potential threat from landslides. The touchstone for these concerns was an interesting […]