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 3 am on 24 May 2024, a large landslide occurred at Kaokalam, in the Muritaka area of Enga province in Papua New Guinea. The exact location of this event is […]
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The destruction of the Bronze Age settlement of Lajia in China
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Yesterday, I posted about a new paper (Shi et al. 2024) that describes the liquefaction landslide damage caused to villages in Gansu Province, triggered by the 18 December 2023 Ms=6.2 Jishishan earthquake. The paper is […]
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The Jishishan earthquake ripple hazard
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. A very interesting paper (Shi et al. 2024) has just been published, open access, in the journal Scientific Reports, describing an “earthquake ripple hazard”, a terminology that I have not come across […]
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Satellite images of the 11 May 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Satellite imagery has now become available of the tailings landslide that affected the Siana gold mine in the Philippines on 11 May 2024. An interesting image has been captured by Capella Space, […]
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Satellite imagery of the 29 April 2024 Mai Mahiu landslide disaster in Kenya
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 29 April 2024, a major debris flow swept through Mai Mahiu in Kenya. At least 60 people were killed, although many more bodies remain missing. It is thought that the final […]
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The 11 May 2024 tailings failure at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines
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 5 a.m. local time on 11 May 2024, a significant tailings landslide occurred at a facility operated by Greenstone Resources Corporation (GRC) at Siana in Surigao del Norte, Philippines. Fortunately […]
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The 7 May 2024 peat landslide at the site of the Viking Windfarm in Shetland
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 7 May 2024 a peat landslide occurred in Shetland, northern Scotland at the site of the under construction Viking Energy wind farm site. The landslide was captured on a video that […]
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The 22 July 2021 Xiao Dongsuo debris flow on the Tibetan Plateau
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Debris flows in arid and semi-arid areas are less common than in more humid environments, but they can have devastating consequences. There has been considerably less research into these processes than might […]
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Landslides in Art Part 35 – Landslide in Front of the Hodogaya Tunnel on the Tōkaidō (1924) by Oda Kanchō
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. It is over three years since I last posted in my series on Landslides in Art – an unintended gap. For those who are interested, previous editions can be found on the […]
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The 1 May 2024 Meilong Expressway landslide in China
36 people were killed when a fill slope failed at 2:10 am, leaving cars to plunge into the landslide scar. The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Those readers who follow me on Twitter (@davepetley) will have seen posts […]