This blog provides a commentary on landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings. The blog is written on a personal basis by Dave Petley, who is the Wilson Professor of Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

This blog is a personal project that does not seek to represent Durham University.

Thursday, 4 November 2010

The Rissa landslide - new (old) video available online


The original and some would say best landslide video is of that of the April 1978 Rissa landslide in Norway. I have mentioned this slide before - and indeed have hosted a link to the video, although that link is now dead. In looking for background material for the amazing Port Chibatao landslide in Manaus (if you haven't looked at that video then you are really missing out) I found that the section of the original documentary is now available online:


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