Posts treating: "Landslide Blog"
Sunday, 01 May 2016
Erdrutsche sind, zumindest auf Video, immer eine wieder eindrucksvolle Naturgewalt. Und der auf diesem Video macht da keine Ausnahme. Dave Petley vom Landslide Blog (von dem ich das ganze hab) hält das Video für das beeindruckendste in diesem Jahr und immerhin unter seinen allzeit-top-ten. Und ich würde ihm nicht widersprechen wollen. Am 27. April diesen Jahres haben sich nahe des Ortes Almaluu-Bulak in der Region Jalal-Abad zwei größere Erdrutsche ereignet. der erste, mit knapp 100 [...]
I saw this video a few weeks back on The Landslide Blog, and it's also been posted on GeoEngineer.org. It's well worth the watch. It's one of the scariest debris flow videos I've seen. Some hikers are crossing a channel cut naturally through old debris flow deposits, like a hiker bowling alley. Fortunately the guides hear it coming and everyone manages to get out of the channel before the latest debris flow roars through! [Source: YouTube via Dave's Landslide Blog. Image:
Building after hit by landslide, from CNN.com here On Sunday, noon local time, a landslide (mudflow?) slammed into an industrial park burying, according to recent CNN reports, 22 buildings according to the CNN report, 33 buildings according to a NYTimes.com report. The site appears to be fairly close to Hong Kong on the north side, and in an area of steep hills. Accounts are obviously very preliminary at this time. Three buildings housed workers. [...]
Kleinbergbau ist für viele Menschen weltweit oft die einzige Möglichkeit, etwas für ihren Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen. Diese im englischen als "artisanal mining" bezeichnete Form des Bergbaus war aber früher, teilweise sogar bis in die 1970´er Jahre auch bei uns verbreitet (dazu kommt sicher noch ein gesondertes Blogposting). Bergbau ist ja schon in den großen Bergwerken gefährlich genug, Allzu oft kommen die Meldungen in den Nachrichten, dass wieder Bergleute ihr Leben verloren, nur um [...]
I thought I would put together a few links to some good early science reporting on the Nepal Quake. First up is Dave Petley’s Landslide Blog here on the AGU Blogosphere. Dave has some good basic facts on the quake. The Washington Post has a good piece that quotes Geologist Roger Bilham who is an expert on quakes in this region, and he says that this was a severe quake
Location of earthquake and initial aftershocksFrom CNN.comA strong earthquake occurred in Nepal about 14 hours ago, and as I write this the death toll from the earthquake has risen to 1,457, with more deaths expected. The people face a cold night without shelter, water or electricity in many regions. The world's thoughts are focused on the people of Nepal with hopes that rescue efforts proceed smoothly an rapidly. Max Wyss, Switzerland, runs a [...]
There was a significant slope failure at the Yeager Airport near Charleston, West Virginia last week. A 2005 project to create an Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) at the end of the runway required a massive reinforced soil structure fill slope over 200 feet high since the airport was constructed on top of a hill. According to a presentation published by the geogrid manufacturer, this project was the tallest known geosynthetic reinforced 1:1 fill slope in North America (as of 2010). [...]
Gestern wurde ein Video von einem Erdrutsch in Dagestan bei Youtube hochgeladen. Es zeigt einen Erdrutsch, möglicherweise in der Form eines Erdschlipfes, auch wenn hier die Vegetation den abrutschenden Block nicht zusammenhalten kann und das ganze sich mehr zu einem kapitalen Erdrutsch entwickelt. Man kann den Vorgang in den ersten Sequenzen des Videos recht gut erkennen. Dave Petley auf dem Landslide Blog bezeichnet den Rutsch als "Earthflow". Man sieht auch, wie sich die Rutschung erst recht [...]
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-01-16 16:19:49]
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Landslides have been in the news frequently over the past 12 months or so. It’s not surprising considering their devastating consequences and potential impact on nearby communities. Data collected by Dave Petley in his Landslide Blog shows that from January to July 2014 alone, there were 222 landslides that caused loss of life, resulting in 1466 deaths. A recent paper, in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Science investigates, what the potential effects of human denudation can have [...]
Image of the landslide from Ekantipur. This appears to bea view on the upstream side, with the water from the impoundedriver flowing to the right and encroaching on the toe of the slide.Image from Dave Petley's blog post of August 2, 2014.OnOn the night of August 1-2, a large landslide occurred along the Sunkoshi River in northern Nepal, damming the river and creating an urgent crisis. I'm not going to follow this event because Dave Petley's landslide blog will be providing excellent coverage. [...]
Professor Petley, the author of the Landslide Blog, has an interesting discussion about a controversy in the geoengineering / geology community regarding the Oso landslide in Washington State. The Geotechnical Engineering Extreme Events Reconaissance (or GEER) report was recently issued for the OSO landslide. But USGS scientists have a different theory about the event. Both the GEER committee and the USGS agree that the Oso landslide was a two-fold failure event. But the difference in [...]
According to the Landslide Blog, this rockfall video was taken in Maoxian County in Sichuan Province of China on or around July 17, 2014. It shows a very dangerous rockfall event with people running from their cars. In one scene you can even see someone being struck by a rock and knocked over. The person is later able to walk away with assistance. Towards the end of the video, even the windshield of the videographer is struck by a smaller rock and cracked. Very dramatic and very scary video!
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Torrential rain in the World Cup city of Natal caused a landslide right around the time that the USA defeated Ghana. According to the Landslide Blog, the landslide destroyed 50 homes but there were no lives lost. A You-Tube Video showing the landslide as seen from a small UAV shows the devestation, and interestingly shows a storm drain that could have played a role in the failure, perhaps becoming overwhelmed after the 50 hours of rain that fell on Natal. [Source: The Landslide Blog. Image: NBC [...]
A video on The Landslide Blog shows a cluster of houses torn apart along the lateral shear zone of a landslide. “Initially most of the damage is focused on the lateral shears (the edge of the landslide), on which the group of houses are
The Landslide Blog has several photos, a video and commentary on the Grand Mesa Mudslide in
A dramatic retaining wall failure and subsequent landslide last week damaged several cars and shut down a rail line in Baltimore, Maryland. The final failure was caught on video by a bystander. The landslide forced a number of residents to be evacuated from their homes.
Video of Baltimore Slope Failure
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The Badakhshan landslide, showing its extreme mobilityPhoto by Blal Sarwary as posted on Dave Petley's Landslide BlogLinks to sources are in adjacent text.Our thoughts and condolences are with the survivors of the devastating landslide in Afghanistan.On his Landslide Blog, David Petley has drawn from the Twitter feed of Bilal Sarwary, a BBC reporter on the spot where the landslide occurred in the Argo District of Badakhshan Province in Northeast Afghanistan was a failure in deposits of [...]
The Landslide Blog has photos and commentary on the recent landslide in Afghanistan that has killed at least hundreds of people. The slide occurred in very fine material with no boulders that may have been
The Landslide Blog has several photos and videos of recent landslides in Baltimore,