5 July 2011
Mudslide video, Yingxiu China
Posted by Dave Petley
Heavy rains over the last few week have caused massive landslides in the Yingxiu area of Sichuan Province, resulting in severe disruption. This is the area that I visited in May. One of the landslides was captured on video – take a look at the video below – the landslide is captured about half way through the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9YRb3i38gM
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.
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There’s some more flooding video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJi2UDO7wU