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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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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A dramatic landslide video from Chongzhou in Sichuan Province, China
A small truck had a lucky escape when a powerful rockslide hit a road in Chongzhou in Sichuan Province in China
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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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Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand triggered 140,000 landslides
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Back in February 2023 I highlighted the large numbers of landslides, and their impacts, associated with the passage of Cyclone Gabrielle in North Island of New Zealand. One landslide, at Manukau Heads, […]
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The 23 September 2023 landslide at Stenungsund in Sweden
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. On 23 September 2023 a very significant landslide occurred at Stenungsund in Sweden, causing extensive damage to a major road, the E6 motorway between Gothenburg and Oslo (across the border in Norway) […]
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Spectacular bouncing boulders in Ticino, Switzerland
The Landslide Blog is written by Dave Petley, who is widely recognized as a world leader in the study and management of landslides. Highly mobile boulders are one of the most extraordinary and hazardous landslide phenomena. In recent years, mobile phone footage has captured a number of these events, such as the famous boulder at […]
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The unusual 18 September 2023 landslides at Dolton in Illinois
A least two landslides were triggered by heavy rainfall on 18 September 2023 at a landfill site at Dolton in Illinois, USA.