Some images of landslides in Nepal triggered by the September 2011 Mw=6.9 Sikkim earthquake

Two interesting forthcoming conferences to mark significant landslide events: 5 years after the Wenchuan earthquake and 50 years after Vajont

19 people, including 18 children, died yesterday in a landslide in the Yiliang area of Yunnan Province, China

The Powerpoint file from my lecture for the Royal Geographical Society last night is available to be viewed online

A video of the immediate aftermath of the Yunnan earthquake sequence in China on Friday. Landslides are clearly a major cause of loss of life and of damage.

As you may have guessed I have been on holiday! Anyway, normal service is now resumed. Early this morning Southwest China was shaken by four small earthquakes.  Usually events of this magnitude – 5.6, 4.9, 5.6 and 4.8 (shown using a USGS screenshot above) – would not be sufficiently large to be worth reporting.  Surprisingly though they appear to have caused considerable damage.  Xinhua is currently report 50 fatalities and …

A video is now available of the aftermath of the landslide triggered by the earthquake in Afghanistan yesterday

Reports are emerging that this morning’s two small earthquakes in Afghanistan triggered a landslide that may have buried 70 people

Details about my forthcoming talk to the Hong Kong Royal Geographical Society on 3rd April 2012

An EERI report is now available on the Sikkim earthquake. Landslides caused immense damage, but are absent from the leassons learnt!