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Google Street View image of the landslide at LaVerkin Bench in Utah.
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LaVerkin Bench: damaging landslides in Utah

by Dave Petley 31 October 202331 October 2023

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 city of LaVerkin in Utah, USA, a series of damaging landslides are destroying houses. The slope failures are occurring on a steep bluff on the edge of the city on […]

Satellite image of the site of the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Dam, after the landslide. Image copyright Planet, used with permission. Image dated 29 October 2023.
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Subansiri: a significant landslide at a hydroelectric dam in India

by Dave Petley 30 October 202330 October 2023

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 27 October 2023 a major landslide occurred at the site of the  Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Power  facility in Assam, northern India. The landslide is significant because it has blocked the […]

A seismic profile line through Kolumbo volcano, showing the volcanic cone, the landslide deposit and the shear plane. Image from Karstens et al. (2023).
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A landslide triggered the 1650 tsunamigenic eruption of Kolumbo in the Aegean Sea

by Dave Petley 27 October 202327 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In 1650, a destructive tsunami occurred in the Aegean Sea, which is an embayment of the Mediterranean sea, located between the modern Greece to the west and Turkey to the east. There […]

Image by Praful Rao, posted to the Save the Hills blog.
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The causes and impact of the 4 October 2023 GLOF in Sikkim, India

by Dave Petley 26 October 202326 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. The ever-reliable Save the Hills blog has a fascinating post about the impact of the 4 October 2023 Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Sikkim, India. The lead author on the blog, […]

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A disruptive landslide in Westchester County, New York

by Dave Petley 24 October 202324 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 21 October 2023 a small but disruptive landslide occurred in Westchester County in New York in the US. The landslide is notable because it blocked the track of the Metro-North’s Hudson […]

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The official report into the 16 December 2022 Batang Kali landslide

by Dave Petley 23 October 202323 October 2023

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 aftermath of the horrific 16 December 2022 landslide at Batang Kali in Malaysia, in which 31 people were killed, an official investigation was instigated by the government. This was not […]

The 16 October 2023 landslide that derailed a train in the Buller Gorge in New Zealand.
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Buller Gorge: a coal train hits a landslide in New Zealand

by Dave Petley 19 October 202319 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. There seems to be little respite to the high incidence of rainfall-induced landslides around the world at the moment. New Zealand is being particularly badly affected as repeated intense precipitation events over […]

Planet Labs satellite image of the area of South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, India, after the landslide and GLOF.
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Active deformation around South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, India

by Dave Petley 12 October 202312 October 2023

The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. In recent days, the dedicated group of landslide scientists that tries to understand large events has been focused on the dreadful Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) that caused such high levels of […]

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Planet Labs images of the landslides at Franschhoek in South Africa

by Dave Petley 11 October 202311 October 2023

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 […]

lood damage in Rangpo caused by the Sikkim flood. Image by Praful Rao of Save the Hills.
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The likely causes of the 4 October 2023 Sikkim flood disaster

by Dave Petley 9 October 20239 October 2023

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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