A round-up of landslide events that have caught my eye in the last week.

I have finally managed to process the 2010 data in my database on lives lost from landslides around the world. This post presents a summary of the findings.

Occasionally, I provide a round up of landslide events and news that has caught my eye in the last week. This is of course the low season for landslides worldwide, so fortunately the number of events is low: 1. Cliff collapse in Dover, UK On 1st January there was a mild flurry of interest in concerns that a rockfall on chalk cliffs near to Dover in Kent, in SE. England, …

In April 1978 an remarkable quick clay landslide was caught in action by two amateur cameramen. A large section of this video has now appeared online.

Long term readers of this blog will know that one of its original purposes was to disseminate the work that I do collating data on fatal landslides worldwide.  As the Attabad situation reduces in its intensity I plan to return to some of those key themes.  So here is a half term report on the occurrence of fatal landslides in 2010. Numbers of landslides:As of the end of 30th June …

I have come across yet another new landslide video. This one was shot in Brazil during the recent heavy rainfall there. This one is quite unusual as the landslide is large and slow moving, but in the video it overruns a house, causing it to collapse: You should be able to play the movie below: http://www.liveleak.com/e/5e9_1228526236 There is also a short video of a landslide removing the support from a …

So here are the scores on the doors for fatal landslides in 2008. First the statistics:Number of fatal landslides: 48Number of fatalities: 396. This is the map of the fatal landslides themselves (click on the map for a better view): As is normal for this time of year the spatial dsitribution is quite scattered, with slides occurring in SE. Asia, S. Asia and C./S. America. This year there has been …

In addition to the two landslide videos from Brazil, I have now come across an even more extraordinary video. This is apparently of a landslide that occurred in Mesitas in Colombia. Whilst the footage of the landslide itself is not as good as some others, the power of the slide as it hits a house is starkly illustrated. Unfortunately I cannot embed this one, so you will need to click …