Sadly, it has been confirmed that the family reported missing in the landslide at Saint-Jude in Canada yesterday were killed in the basement of their house.  Interestingly, the area of road on the north side of the slide looks like this (this view is looking north, effectively standing on the slide looking across at ground that did not move): Note the two large, very recent tarmac repairs extending right across …

The Canadian media is reporting the case of a “sinkhole” that developed in St Jude, 77 km to the north of Montreal, last night.  The sinkhole included a family house, with four people inside.  At the moment these occupants are reported to be missing.  The Montreal Gazette has a photo gallery of the site.  One of the photos is this one: Based upon this image this does not look like …

Thanks to Andrew Giles for bringing this one to my attention. Highway 97 in British Columbia is currently being upgraded through the Okanagan Valley (Fig. 1). This project is being undertaken by Arthon – their project website describes this as: “Four lane roadworks and 1,000,000 m3 rock removal over a 7 km section of BC’s main north-south highway corridor. The B.C. Ministry of Transportation awarded Arthon Contractors Inc. a $38.6 …

Several significant landslides associated with rapid snowmelt in western North America in May 2023, driven by exceptional temperatures.

The 15 November 2021 2021 Duffey Lake landslide in Canada: the role of old logging roads in triggering slope failures

I have been pondering the number of large landslide disasters that occurred in the 1960s. This is an initial list that includes the landslide impacts of two of the greatest earthquakes in history and a series of landslides caused by dams and mining.

On 17 September 2022 a large rock avalanche developed from the collapse of a rock slope at Lamplugh Glacier in Alaska

Always fly with the window blinds up: images of the large 25 May 2014 West Salt Creek landslide in Colorado, USA

In the last few days a video captured by a drone of the aftermath of the 2009 Black Lake rockslide at Thetford Mines in Quebec, Canada, has gone viral. 

Whitehorse escarpment, Canada: on 28 May 2022 the Yukon Geological Survey recorded a significant landslide on a monitoring camera.