A very large valley blocking landslide has occurred on the Hapuku River in New Zealand following the Kaikoura earthquake, creating a 150 m high dam

Demolition has started of properties damaged by landslides in the Port Hills area of Christchurch during the 2010-2011 earthquakes. This post shows some of the photographs that I took shortly afterwards.

Reports suggest that at least 18 people were killed by landslides in the Guatemala earthquake, and that 11 have been killed by a landslide dam collapse in Indonesia today

The first set of images of landslides triggered by the recent Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand. This set show a house that has been struck by a large boulder.

Thanks to Lynn Highland for the heads-up on this one. The French language website cyberpresse.ca has an article describing a valley blocking landslide triggered by the Haiti earthquake. The translation says: “The dam is large and there are still several tens of metres before the water passes over it. The problem is that it has hardly rained since the earthquake of January 12. When the rainy season triggers, a few …

Below is the presentation file of the keynote lecture that I gave today at the Chilean Geological Congress in Santiago. I have removed a few of the figures as they have not yet been published. You should be able to download and to view the file below: Damage caused by earthquake landslides http://www.authorstream.com/player/player.swf?p=278331_633948356710621250 See more presentations by Dr_Dave | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations The powerpoint file is hosted on Authorstream, which …

This is the fourth part of my photographic description of damage caused by the Sichuan earthquake. The other parts are as follows: Part 1: Beichuan townPart 2: The Tangjiashan landslidePart 3: Hanwang townPart 4 (this part): The Mianyuanhe areaPart 5: The Xingyiu area First a location map. The Mianyuanhe area is a fairly large river valley that cuts through the Longmen mountain chain, with its mouth as Hanwang as shown …

Many thanks to reader Ripendra for alerting me to the following, and indeed for doing nearly all the work for this post. The 14th June 2008 earthquake in Japan is known to have triggered a number of landslides, as per earlier posts, but the most notable appears to have occurred at Aratozawa Dam in Miyagi prefecture. The Aratozawa Dam (Figure 1) is a rockfill dam used for flood control, irrigation …

The 27 June 2023 landslide at Miansi, Sichuan Province, China, which is reported to have killed at least seven people.

Landslides from the 5 September 2022 Mw=6.7 Luding Earthquake in Sichuan, China triggered many landslides around the town of Moxi.