29 June 2015

Daning River landslide: a video that is purported to show the failure event

Posted by Dave Petley

Daning River landslide

CCTV in China has uploaded video onto Youtube that apparently shows the Daning River landslide collapse event:

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The video seems vaguely familiar so I am unsure as to whether it is actually this event.  Certainly the shape of the failure and the type of landslide looks to be correct:

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Does anyone have any further information?  The landslide is now believed to have killed two people.