46 people are now known to have died in the Gaopo Village landslide in China last week. The September earthquakes in this area may have played a role in this event

Four interesting new landslide videos, two from the USA, one from China and one from the UK

Two interesting forthcoming conferences to mark significant landslide events: 5 years after the Wenchuan earthquake and 50 years after Vajont

19 people, including 18 children, died yesterday in a landslide in the Yiliang area of Yunnan Province, China

A couple of interesting landslide stories this week (updated with an extra video below): 1. The Route 14 landslide near Cedar Falls, Utah Thanks to Alexandre Mathieu for the heads up on this one.  Back in October 2011, a huge landslide blocked State Route 14 near to Cedar Falls. Since then a huge project has been underway to reinstate the road.  This was completed this week, when the road reopened.  …

I have now been collecting data on landslide fatalities for ten years. In that time I have recorded almost 90,000 landslide-induced deaths.

The Yangtze River has changed colour – suddenly becoming red – in the city of Chongqing. The likely cause is landslides associated with heavy rainfall in the catchment, although exactly where this occurred is not clear.

My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.

This weekend there were many landslide incidents around the world. This blog post highlights nine of them, in the UK, Austria, Canada, Mexico, India and China

I have created a short animation, now on Youtube, to show the annuallandslide cycle in Asia. It is quite experimental, but interesting?