15 August 2012
A video illustration of the impacts of riverbank collapse
Posted by Dave Petley
This was apparently shot in Uttarakhand in India in early August. It occurred as a result of a period of unusually intense monsoon rainfall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFu6KJXZrE
The people in the area are impressively unflappable!
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.