Posts treating: "Landslides"
Monday, 02 October 2023
Over the years I’ve come again and again to the quiet, but once eventful Reservoir Hills neighborhood, on the Glenview side of Sausal Creek and south of I-580. This weekend I led a walk for the Friends of Sausal Creek through the area, which gave me the chance to dig a little deeper, hence this
Jungle Hill is an odd plot of city-owned land off 38th Avenue in East Oakland. It’s been something of an embarrassment since it collapsed in landslides in the 1910s, marring the carefully tended image of a new and very desirable neighborhood. Landslides are more common in Oakland’s low hills than people think. Jungle Hill is
The Lincoln Square shopping center, which I featured in my previous post, has nothing to do with President Lincoln, just as Lincoln Avenue has nothing to do with Honest Abe (it was named for Lincoln Rhoda, son of landowner Frederick Rhoda). It wasn’t on the Lincoln Highway either. Nope, it was named by the prominent
I spent some time last week in a concerted effort to examine the site of the 1970 London Road/Wilshire Heights landslide. (It took me five years to return to this haunted scene!) The effort was fun, but I learned more at home than I did on site. Gather round the campfire and I’ll tell you
Ten years ago, I took my first walk on the fire road above the North Oakland Regional Sports Center (Caldecott Field), where I saw fit to document an incipient landslide there. In June, standing on Skyline Boulevard, I noticed that the site was shrouded in black plastic, a surefire sign of a landslide. Passing by
After a visit five years ago, I had high praise for Elverton Drive: “From end to end, it offers the best exposures anywhere of the Claremont chert.” This stuff, as seen a few weeks ago during a return visit. Those of you who’ve followed along know the amazing striped chert of the Claremont Shale, which
Robyn Collier, an artist from New South Wales in Australia, has painted The Landslide, a beautiful image of a rockfall scar in the Blue
It hasn't really rained for a month, so anybody can do anything to a slope. Without water we'd get no landslides or earthquakes. Of course, we wouldn't be around to celebrate. :)
This was yesterday, and today it's exactly the same. A very nice geological exposure. I really think they can be done and gone before it rains
The 3rd North American Symposium on Landslides will be held in Roanake, Virginia in June 2017, hosted by the AEG and the Canadian Geotechnical
I'm scheduled to be on the syndicated radio show "Rosie on the House" with host Rosie Romero, tomorrow morning, April 30, starting at about 7:10 a.m., to talk about the recent swarms of earthquakes in Arizona, and the AZGS project to identify all the landslides in the state. [Right, map of known landslides in Arizona. Credit, AZGS]
We will also talk about preparedness for
GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-04-27 14:35:02]
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(159 visits) DE,GR,JP,CI,CN,NP,US,PK,
Jane Qiu, a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, took to quake-stricken Nepal last month — venturing into landslide-riddled terrains and shadowing scientists studying what makes slopes more susceptible to failure after an earthquake. The journey proved to be more perilous than she had expected. What would it be like to lose all your family overnight? And how would you cope? It’s with these questions in mind that I trekked with a heavy heart along the Langtang Valley, a [...]
Stunning data from DPRI at Kyoto University, and available as a Google Earth kmz file, provides the first map of the distribution of landslides triggered by the M=7.0 Kumamoto Earthquake in
Another set of high quality aerial images of several of the landslides triggered by the Kumamoto earthquakes in Japan, as photographed by Asia Air
The rains in early April 2016 have caused extensive landslide damage to the Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, causing major problems to communities upstream. Two landslides are proving to be particularly problematic, and may take another week to
Paleoseismicity [2016-04-10 16:25:27]
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(637 visits) Quaternary; PK,MQ,MX,NZ,
This is the April edition of my paper round-up. Today I recommend papers on high-resolution topography data, fault mechanics, earthquake environmental/archaeological effects (liquefaction, rotated objects, landslides), Quaternary dating, a fault database for Asia, and tectonics of New Zealand and Martinique. Enjoy! Zhou, Y., Walker, R. T., Elliott, J. R., & Parsons, B. (2016). Mapping 3D fault geometry in earthquakes using high‐resolution topography: Examples from the 2010 El [...]
This 25th edition of the Landslides in Art series features Morning at Bluff Cove by the Californian landscape artist Richard
Kalimpong Day 2: the second day of the SHAMROCC visit involved a visit to several landslides on the eastern face of
On Day 1 of our UKIERI visit to Darjeeling in India we visited a landslide site on National Highway 10 that caused major problems in
Sumner rockfalls - videos of the landslides triggered by the M=5.7 earthquake near to Christchurch in New Zealand
The 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan triggered large numbers of landslides. Google Earth imagery illustrates their dramatic