24 November 2008
Quarry rockfall in Guangxi
Posted by Dave Petley
ChinaDaily is carrying the image below of an large rockfall in a former quarry in Fengshan County of Guangxi Province in China:

The accompanying report says that the landslide occurred without warning and without an obvious trigger in a long-abandoned quarry. The volume of the landslide is reported to be 21,000 cubic metres. It buried 300m of road, 16 buildings, two tractors, a car and a motorbike. Sadly, five people were killed, one person is reported missing and six people were injured, two seriously.

Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.