In December 2011 a severe rainstorm triggered landslides in Golden Bay, New Zealand. This post provides photos of the landslide damage.

An update on the Christchurch earthquake sequence this morning

As AGU 2011 draws to a close (and I still have some blog posts to write about the meeting), I need to try to catch up on a substantial backlog of landslide news.  So, to start off, Monica Gowan from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch has sent these two pictures of the rockfalls as they occurred in the Sumner area of New Zealand on 13th June.  Please note that …

A summary of talks at AGU 2011, including presentations on landslides, earthquakes, sea level rise and the LUSI mud volcano

new research from ETH Zurich on using seismic signal to detect large landslide events

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

A review of a new paper that has identified a new, large, ancient landslide in northern California. The landslide dam had a surprising impact on the local fish population

The remarkable slope failures in the sediments at Lake Condit in Washington State USA, which were caught on video, illustrate the processes associated with slope failure during rapid draw-down.

A new Geological Survey of India report describes some of the landslides triggered by the September 2011 Sikkim earthquake in India and Nepal

An update, with links to resources, about the five valley blocking landslides in southern Japan