The Bhote Kosi landslide crisis continues, with little reduction in the level of the lake despite the best efforts of the Nepal Army

The government mapping agency in China has released satellite images of landslides triggered by the Yunnan earthquake earlier this week

Unusually there are two valley-blocking landslides causing concerns at present, in Nepal & China, whilst recovery operations at Malin in India continue

A massive landslide in the Sunkoshi Valley of northern Nepal has created an instant, very serious valley-blocking landslide crisis

The Rustaq landslide Whilst researching the Ab Barak landslide in Afghanistan last week, I came across this image of another landslide in Afghanistan: .. This is clearly a very large and very spectacular landslide that has induced a enormous amount of damage.  The reports were that this slide was also triggered by the heavy rainfall of 10 days or so ago.  However, I did some background research and found that …

Details of three forthcoming public lectures that I am presenting or chairing, in Leeds, Durham and Cockermouth

On 12 February 2014 a Mw=6.9 earthquake struck Xinjiang in China. Images are emerging of some of the landslides that it triggered.

A new paper models landslide occurrence for a large Seattle earthquake in western USA. The results suggest that the effects of landslides would be extremely serious

Both the earthquake in Bohol in the Philippines yesterday and typhoon Wipha in Japan appear to have caused high levels of loss from landslides

A new paper, Brooks (2013), has investigated a huge quick clay landslide in Canada. It concludes that it formed about 1100 years ago in response to an earthquake