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18 October 2015
Videos and images of the mudflows in the Tehachapi Mountains, California
Extreme rainfall on Thursday triggered mudflows in the Tehachapi Mountains of California. A number of videos caught the events as they developed, and there are some excellent galleries of images of the aftermath.
15 October 2015
Karachi rockfall: a human-induced tragedy?
A rockfall in Karachi on Tuesday killed 13 people including seven children. Images of the site hint that there may be a human cause of the tragedy
13 October 2015
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana
The Deep Lake landslide in Montana is a giant prehistoric rockslide that has created a large lake in the Beartooth Mountains
11 October 2015
El Cambray II: 264 killed, 40 still missing
A new, high quality video shows the recovery operations at the El Cambray II landslide in Guatemala, shich is now known to have killed at least 264 people.
8 October 2015
An account of the El Cambray landslide in Guatemala
Losses from the El Cambray landslide in Guatemala have now reached 220, with a further 150 people thought to be still missing
5 October 2015
The seismically triggered landslide dam in Honshiyan, Yunnan, China: a review of a new paper
In a just published paper, Zhang et al. 2015 describe the emergency works undertaken to mitigate the seismically triggered landslide dam at Honshiyan, Yunnan in China in 2014.
3 October 2015
El Cambray Dos landslide in Guatemala: many killed
Yesterday the large El Cambray Dos landslide in Guatemala killed at least 26 people. Drone footage suggests that this was a rainfall-induced slide in weak rocks.
1 October 2015
Kothmale landslide in Sri Lanka: drone footage
Drone footage is now available of the interesting Kothmale landslide in Sri Lanka, which killed seven people on 25th September 2015
29 September 2015
The Inskip sinkhole in Australia – undoubtedly a landslide
On Saturday a section of beach dramatically collapsed in Queensland, Australia to form the Inskip Sinkhole. It is now clear that this was actually a submarine landslide.
27 September 2015
Tonzang landslide: a new giant landslide in Chin Division, Burma (Myanmar)
In late July exceptional rainfall appears to have triggered a large number of landslides in Chin Division, Burma (Myanmar), including the giant Tonzang landslide
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.
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