The problematic A83 at Rest and Be Thankful in Scotland: the cause of the landslide problems that cause repeated disruption

The M=6.4 Hualien earthquake yesterday in Taiwan occurred close to Taroko Gorge, which provides the alignment for the Central Cross Island Highway. This is a road that is prone to landslides and rockfalls. It will be fascinating to see how the slopes performed.

The Pas de l’Ours landslide: a very large and potentially-problematic actively-moving rockslide in the Queyras Valley of France

In new paper, O’Brien et al. (2016) report that regional earthquakes generate substantial changes in the groundwater level in landslides in Cromwell Gorge, New Zealand

Kalimpong Day 4: an interesting and hard to manage rockslide that killed two people on State High 31A in India in January 2016

On Kalimpong Day 3 we visited a gully that is being actively eroded as a result of poor urban water management in the town

Very large rock avalanches deposits often show severe fragmentation and yet retain their originnal structure. This post explores this phenomenon using examples from New Zealand and the Alps.

An EERI report is now available on the Sikkim earthquake. Landslides caused immense damage, but are absent from the leassons learnt!

Reports today suggest that an interesting landslide problem in New Zealand has finally come to a close. The location of the problem was the Shotover River in Otago, which is a little to the north of Queenstown on South Island. Shotover is famous as an extreme sports location – in particular jet-boating on the Shotover River, white water rafting and a canyon swing (a sort of bungee jump I think) …