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Tumbi Quarry landslide: was it caused by rainfall or seismic activity?

A paper by Robbins et al. 2013, reviews the landslide that occurred on January 24, 2012 in the Tagali Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The fatal consequences of the landsli...

Landslide sensors preventing disasters

A team from the Atmospheric Science Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville tested wireless sensors in an active landslide zone. The goal of the study was to estimate the potential infor...

Landslide in mine of Megalopolis Lignite Center in Greece (video)

The landslide had a length of 1km and was caused by an adjacent fault on September 14, 2013. The fault was previously known and was being monitored by scientists. According to econews the first geo...

Paper documents failure at Payatas landfill in the Philippines that killed 330

A paper published by Jafari, Prof. Tim Stark and Prof. Scott Merry describes the conditions under which the ~30 m failure took place. The paper is part of Vol. 2 Issue 3 of the International Journal o...

Huge landslide at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine. Mine slope monitoring paid off.

 A landslide finally occurred at the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.  The Kennecot Copper Bingham Canyon Mine is the second largest copper producer in the United States, provid...