Dave Petley
@davepetley
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Vice-Chancellor at Nottingham Trent University. I used to tweet about geological hazards, particularly landslides. This account is now dormant. #PUSB
Nottingham, UK
Joined February 2011
A large boulder was causing “concern on the hillside”, leading to the closure of the Rest and be Thankful on Monday. Watch the successful operation to move it.
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@davepetley @planet The lake just outbursted this afternoon, during the intense rainfall from the typhoon.
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ST KILDA Storm Floris causes landslide on historic island A 'significant' landslip has taken place at St Kilda caused by heavy rainfall from Storm Floris. The world heritage site consists of an archipelago 65km (35 nautical miles) west-northwest of North Uist, the most remote
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In the UK, it's #NationalBloodWeek by @givebloodnhs. The NHS is currently short of 200,000 donors. I've been a platelet donor for a while - I donate about every 4 weeks. It's painless and incredibly worthwhile. If you can, please volunteer to donate. https://t.co/A1H3xpUnaW 🅰➖
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On 28 May 2025, the Birch Glacier in Switzerland catastrophically failed, generating a massive landslide that has partially buried Blatten. So what happens next? https://t.co/GpyhYWf7cC
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"Overview of the first fatal post-fire🔥 debris flow event🌧️⛰️recorded 📅 in Italy🇮🇹", just published in @ICL_IPL Landslides journal 📰 . @CNRsocial_ @CNRDTA @CNR_IRPI
@davepetley @LandAware @polaris_irpi
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@davepetley just saw this video posted of a landslide in Southwest Oregon. They've been receiving a record amount of rain The last several days https://t.co/sEjFtfccWg
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Deslizamiento de tierra del tipo rotacional, sobre materiales de cenizas volcánicas meteorizadas y saturadas por las fuertes lluvias de la madrugada, arrasó 7 viviendas de la vereda Los Cuervos, municipio de Villamaría, Caldas 🇨🇴
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✨Editor's Pick✨ Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows #avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances. 🔗Learn more in @AGU_Eos: https://t.co/73LeM2hx2q
#AGUPubs @theAGU
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Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.
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A landslide occurred in a village in Yunlian, Yibin City, Sichuan Province at 11:50 noon today. It is estimated that 30 people are missing and 2 people have been rescued.
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I have posted my provisional analysis of fatal landslides in 2024 on my blog. In total, 708 fatal landslides (excluding those triggered by an earthquake), cost 4,492 lives. This is far higher than in any previous year for which I have data. https://t.co/McU041CEyx CC license.
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⏫ We’re rising through the rankings. We moved up 14 places in the Guardian’s University guide, received the highest possible ranking in the national KEF, and were placed among the best in the world in the THE Impact Rankings for our work in creating a more sustainable future.
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A better image (a row last summer and row this morning) showing the extent of the rock that came away. ... And I guarantee we will still see people sat on the beach underneath them, or dangling their legs over the edges, come summer ☀️
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Aerial photos show extent of West Bay rockfall
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NEW aerial photos show the true extent of the most recent rockfall at West Bay
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Family trip to the CBS today, with Holly and @adampetley. Will Holly bring us some luck after the Portsmouth debacle? #PUSB
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First of three long festive away days today, at Portsmouth, a city in which I worked for 5 years. A fine real ale start to the day at The Brewers Tap. #pusb
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We are looking for a postdoc to work on landscape response to the 2024 Hualien EQ, please RT and circulate widely! https://t.co/NsSeMuWMs2
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@davepetley #Japan #landslide X translation: "On August 5, 1783, a landslide from Mount Asama completely buried the village of Kamahara, except for Kamahara Shrine (white circle on the left). 93 people were saved by running up the 50 stone steps to the Kannon Hall (white circle
天明三年七月八日(1783年8月5日)に浅間山から流れてきた土石なだれに鎌原村は、鎌原神社(左の白丸)を除いて、すっかり埋まった。観音堂(右の白丸)に至る石段50段を駆け上がった93人が助かって、477人が土石に飲まれた、とされる。
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A landslide occurred at 03.45 Arhavi (Artvin), near the eastern exit of the Güngören tunnel passage. The landslide covered a section of the road approximately 220 meters long. From a visual inspection of Google Earth images, we (@itugeohazard ) conclude that the event is a
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