Sand in Taufers: an unusual and interesting rockslide in Italy that was caught on surveillance camera. Fortunately it caused minimal damage.

The 8 March 2023 rockslide and train derailment in Sandstone, West Virigina, USA, which caused four locomotives and nine coal trucks to leave the tracks.

On 27 March 2020 a large and unusual failure in a sand heap at the Guizhou Commercial Concrete Co in Guiyang in Guizhou province, China killed 7 people

A video has appeared on Youtube that appears to show a weird debris flow of ice, water and sand from the Middle East. Is it real?

Image © http://www.hat.net/. Used with permission The UK news today carries a very sad report of the death of a teenager on a beach in the UK: “Paramedics tried to resuscitate the boy after he was pulled out of the sand at Cefn Sidan beach, near Burry Port in Carmarthenshire, on Sunday evening. The teenager was airlifted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea but doctors there pronounced him dead. The boy …

A new paper in the journal Engineering Geology (Zhang et al. 2023) examines the evolution of landslides after the Wenchuan earthquake. It found that in the first two years landslide activity increased further, but then declined.

Buriticupu is a town with a population of about 73,000 that is being affected by a chronic gully and landslide problem.

Manutuke: a large landslide triggered by Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand , which narrowly missed a house in the Gisborne area

Information about, and images of, landslides triggered by the 6 February 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes is starting to emerge on social media

The 6 February 2023 Mw=7.8 earthquake near Nurdağı in Gaziantep, Turkey is likely to have triggered substantial numbers of landslides