Summary: This post presents for the first time NASA satellite images of the earthquake-affected area around Gangtok in Sikkim.

A gallery of images of Sikkim after the earthquake, many showing landslides, is now available online.

Updates on the earthquake in the Himalayas, the overtopping of landslide dams in Japan resulting from typhoon Roke, and landslides in Rwanda and Guatemala.

First images of the damage in Sikkim.

Latest information on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy

An update on reported losses from the earthquake in the Himalayas yesterday. Landslides are clearly a major problem, and further heavy rainfall is forecast.

At 12:40 UT (18:40 local time) today an earthquake struck Sikkim in northern India, producing significant shaking in Nepal, India and, probably Bhutan.  According to the USGS information page for the event, this is a magnitude 6.9 event at a depth of about 20 km, though note that this will probably change slightly as better data become available.  The epicentre is located as shown on the map below: Although this …

Images of the earthquake-damaged city centre of Christchurch, New Zealand

This is the 5th part of the series of posts, this time examining landslides that involve sliding triggered by the Christchurch earthquakes

Part four in the series posts examining landslides from the Christchurch earthquakes. This edition looks at large-scale cliff collapses.