New research shows that home flood insurance coverage is often a reactive purchase in response to flooding, while top-down policies that focus on community resilience may offer more robust protection.
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Shaking Up Earthquake Science in Cascadia
A new center will bring together earthquake scientists to study the Cascadia Subduction Zone and clarify seismic hazards.
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Planet Labs images of the landslides at Franschhoek in South Africa
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Last week, I featured a set of landslides that were triggered by heavy rainfall at Franschhoek in South Africa on 23 – 24 September 2023. My good and very kind friends at […]
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The likely causes of the 4 October 2023 Sikkim flood disaster
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Amongst a deluge of tragic news stories, the appalling flood in Sikkim in NE India on 4 October 2023 has received less attention than it deserved. The basic information about the event […]
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Hurricane Harvey Filled Houston with Sediment
The storm’s record-setting rains moved an equally impressive amount of sediment and elevated the risk and expense of absorbing all that muck.
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Landslides triggered by the 5 September 2022 Ms=6.8 Luding Earthquake in China
The 5 September 2023 Ms=6.8 Luding Earthquake in China killed an estimated 118 people, of whom 80% were killed by landslides.
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Franschhoek: an interesting set of landslides in South Africa
Franschhoek: 299 mm of rainfall deposited by a large storm has triggered an interesting set of landslides in South Africa
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Earthquakes Have Preparatory Stage Years Before Rupture
Tidally induced seismicity increased locally before the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake, suggesting that fault sensitivity to stress increases in the years immediately before large earthquakes.
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The Jinbu debris flow experiment in South Korea
A new paper in the journal Landslides (Yune et al. 2023) describes a remarkable debris flow experiment at in South Korea in which 600 cubic metres of soil and water was released down a natural channel.
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Radar Tracks Unfortunate Creatures Trapped in Tropical Cyclones
Cyclones can sweep up birds and insects and transport them great distances.