A video from Online Schools commemorating the Tohuku Earthquake in Japan a year ago today

An update on both the Tumbi Quarry and Philippine earthquake landslides, including new images from the Philippines

The earthquake in the Philippines yesterday appears to have stirred barely a ripple in the global media, but in a comparatively small area of Negros Oriental conditions are clearly very difficult.  It is now clear that the majority of deaths have resulted from landslides.  The latest NRRDMC report lists one confirmed fatality from a landslide in Tayasan, plus 29 people missing at Barangay (village) Planas in Guihulngan, and 42 missing …

Initial news of landslides triggered by the earhquake in the Philippines this morning. At the moment the loss data is dominated by the effects of two slides.

A review of landslides triggered by the 1929 Murchison earthquake in New Zealand, including some pictures I took in my recent visit.

An update on the Christchurch earthquake sequence this morning

The Pakistan Meteorological Department director has downplayed warnings of seismic hazard in Kashmir. This appears to be very misguided.

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

The Japan Landslide Society and various partners are organising an International Symposium  on Earthquake-Induced Landslides from 7th to 9th November 2012, to be held in Kiryu, Japan.  The conference website is now online; the deadline for abstracts is 20th December 2011.