Over the last few days Colin Stark and I have spent some time trying to determine the nature of the landslide that was responsible for the catastrophic flood on the Seti River, close to Pokhara in Nepal , which killed 72 people .  We are trying to tie together the amazing data from the seismic network with observations and timings.  The primary [...]

Colin Stark and Goran Ekstrom have been working for a while on the analysis of seismic data to detect very large landslides.  Whilst still in its infancy, this technique shows great promise for very large landslides, and it is increasingly clear that some landslide parameters can be extracted from the seismic data if the force history [...]

Yesterday the Seti River in Kaski District in Nepal was affected by a catastrophic and very sudden flash flood.  The flood affected the villages of Kharapani in Sardikhola VDC; Sadal in Machhapuchhre VDC; Yamdi; and Ramghat in Kaski district.  To date 15 people are confirmed to have been killed, but the toll will inevitably rise.  Initial estimates [...]

…courtesy of Business Insider and wftv.com, this sinkhole developed in Windermere, Florida over the last few days:

…is the opening of the 11th International & 2nd North American Symposium on Landslides in Banff, Canada .  I will be attending, and on the first day will be giving the opening keynote lecture on “Landslides and engineered slopes: Protecting society through improved understanding”.  In preparation for that, over the next month I will feature data from the [...]

The UK has just suffered from its wettest April in 90 years, with much of the rainfall falling in the last few days.  The result has been a number of landslides around the country, including two on railway lines ( see here for previous examples of landslides on railway lines ): 1. Train derailed at the Clarborough Tunnel in [...]

I was looking at Google Earth imagery of the area affected by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake this week, and in particular focused in on the Hattian landslide.  This was by far the largest landslide triggered by the earthquake in 2005.  T here is a detailed description of the landslide in a paper that we wrote for Engineering [...]

A couple of weeks ago I posted several images from my recent visit to China Three Gorges University, and in particular on landslides on the banks of the reservoir associated with the Three Gorges Dam .  Interestingly, last week, whilst I was on vacation, a number of news agencies ran a story about landslide hazards in this area.  The spur [...]

Last week Archinect website carried a slightly intriguing design concept for ” Landslide Mitigation Housing ” by Jared Winchester and Viktor Ramos, which are residential units to be intentionally constructed on a landslide site.  The inspiration is a location in California at Rancho de Palos Verdes , near to Los Angeles, where there is a site that is currently impossible [...]

Now Updated – see the end of the post The international media briefly reported that on Saturday there was a devastating event in the high mountains of Pakistani Kashmir .  An avalanche was reported to have descended from the Siachen Glacier and overwhelmed an army camp, killing 138 soldiers and civilians.  This story always had a slightly strange [...]