Losses from the El Cambray landslide in Guatemala have now reached 220, with a further 150 people thought to be still missing

In my latest paper, written with Sergio Sepulveda, Regional trends and controlling factors of fatal landslides in Latin America and the Caribbean, we look at ten years of human losses from landslides across this key area of the world.

The Irish Mirror is reporting that a likeness of Jesus has appeared in a landslide scar in Colombia.

Lahars are extraordinarily energetic debris flows that originate in volcanic materials.  They are one of the most poorly understood volcanic processes, even though they are exceptionally destructive.  Lahars have been responsible for thousands of deaths in the last century – the 1985 lahar from Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia is believed to have killed over 23,000 people for example.  Those sorts of numbers are hard to believe unless you have …

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

An update on catastrophic landslide events in the last few days in India, Uganda, Bangladesh and Canada

A report suggests that the landslide that killed 48 people in Colombia in November was caused by a leaking pipe

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

Brief reports and updates on landslides in Colombia, Libya, New Zealand and China

In the last few days a series of new videos have emerged of landslides and rockfalls as they occur.  Thanks to various people for highlighting them to me.  I am still struggling with the WordPress embed function (it was so easy in Blogger!), so apologies that some of this will have to be done through external links. First, a couple of weeks ago a debris flow killed 20 people when …