The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On Friday, the first set of satellite images became available of the 13 February 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey. This was a very good radar image released by Capella Space […]
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El despertar del Popocatépetl: Transformando la vulcanología en México
La erupción del “Don Goyo” de 1994 en México central aceleró el interés académico en la vulcanología.
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Further videos of the 13 February 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In the last 24 hours, two new videos have emerged showing the 13 February 2024 landslide at Çöpler Mine in Turkey. Once again, these have been widely posted to social media. The […]
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Deep Learning Facilitates Earthquake Early Warning
A deep learning model trained with real-time satellite data significantly reduces the time to predict the ground motion of big earthquakes.
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The United States Has an Updated Map of Earthquake Hazards
The new National Seismic Hazard Model shows where damaging earthquakes are likely to occur, informing public safety and infrastructure policies.
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The 13 February 2024 landslide at the Çöpler Mine in Erzincan province, Turkey
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 2 pm local time on 13 February 2024, a large landslide struck the Çöpler Mine in Erzincan Province, eastern Turkey. The landslide was caught on a remarkable video that has […]
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Pre-Season Wet Soil Produces Fire-Prone Conditions
The SMAP satellite shows that wetter-than-normal soil five months prior to wildfires in the western United States increases fuel availability and fire activity when desiccation occurs.
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The 6 February 2024 landslide at Masara 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 6 February 2024, a large landslide struck the mining village of Masara in in Maco town, Davao de Oro in the Philippines. As of the time of writing, it had been […]
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We’ve Already Seen Category 6 Hurricanes—Now Scientists Want to Make It Official
Intensifying storms may warrant a new category of hurricane wind speeds.
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The 25 January 2024 mine waste failure in the Hpakant mining area of Myanmar
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Earlier this week a video appeared on social media showing a mine waste failure. The video is remarkable – probably the best example of a progressive failure of a mine waste dam […]