I have now moved to the University of East Anglia at PVC (RE). To restart blogging, two new landslide videos have been posted, from India and Costa Rica

Heavy rainfall is bringing continued landslide problems in Nepal and northern India, compounding the difficulties facing the Nepal Army at the Sunkoshi site

The media in India is providing extensive coverage of the Malin landslide in Pune, which is now known to have killed at least 56 people

Monsoon 2014 in South Asia is late this year, but the 16 landslide deaths overnight in Nepal suggest that it is now having an impact.

A personal review of the five most important landslides of 2013, including Kedarnath (India), Bingham Canyon (USA), Gyama (Tibet), La Pintada (Mexico) and Izu-Oshima (Japan)

In October I gave a keynote address at the 50th anniversary conference for the Vajont disaster, entitled landslides and large dams. The is the powerpoint file and the full paper

Vaibhav Kaul recently visited Kedarnath in Uttarakhand, India, the site of the debris flow disaster earlier this year. These are some of his photographs

Vaibhav Kaul has taken an excellent set of photos of the aftermath of the Kedarnath debris flow disaster in India. I’ve posted the first one here, and will do a fuller post next week

The distribution of fatal landslides in Asia is very uneven. This is an updated map based upon my landslide database

On Friday a large landslide killed at least four people at Senboku in Akita Province in Japan