Digital elevation model data for the Novato landslide in California demonstrates that the failure occurred on an ancient landslide complex.

The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) released last week a Landslide Atlas of India

On Wednesday 8 February 2023 a large rockfall occurred at Christkindl in the town of Steyr in Austria, tragically killing two men working to mitigate the hazard.

A great video has emerged of a boulder that crashed into a house in the Palolo Valley in Hawaii on Sunday 29 January 2023

Today marks the 15th anniversary of my first post to the Landslide Blog – I have made 2,470 posts so far, with many more to come.

A new open access paper (Shabbir et al. 2022) examines the occurrence and impact of landslides in Pakistan between 2003 and 2019. In total, 1,089 landslides have been identified, of which 180 led to loss of life, with 1,072 people being killed by landslides over this period. 

At least 20 people were killed by a mudslide at Kusiong village in the Philippines on Thursday, triggered by Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae. The local people had been drilled to prepare for a storm surge, so sheltered upslope, where they were killed by a mudslide.

The Las Tejerías landslide disaster: helicopter footage shows multiple landslides in the catchment upstream of the town.

The Cochin slide: a new paper published in the journal Landslide describes a 138 km long submarine landslide southwest of India

I have been pondering the number of large landslide disasters that occurred in the 1960s. This is an initial list that includes the landslide impacts of two of the greatest earthquakes in history and a series of landslides caused by dams and mining.