1 July 2014
Zhaotong City: a new landslide video
Posted by Dave Petley
Zhaotong City landslide
The onset of the rainy season is China is, as usual, being marked by an increase in landslides. A number of news agencies have been carrying this footage of a slide occurring at Tuohe village in Daguan County, Zhaotong City in Yunnan Province on Saturday afternoon:
The landslide buried four local people, three of whom died. The heavy rains have also led to the death of a panda in Sichuan Province, apparently having been caught in a landslide, and to a landslide in Yunnan Province yesterday that killed two people and left a further 13 people missing.

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.