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

James Reynolds has collected a remarkable video of rockfall activity on Paluweh volcano in Indonesia as seismic events shake the lava dome

First news of the Burma earthquake and an update on the one in Guatemala

My paper on landslide impacts on human life worldwide has just been published in Nature. This post briefly review the results.

I have created a short animation, now on Youtube, to show the annuallandslide cycle in Asia. It is quite experimental, but interesting?

A summary of talks at AGU 2011, including presentations on landslides, earthquakes, sea level rise and the LUSI mud volcano

A round-up of landslide events that have caught my eye in the last week.

Given that natural hazards are at the forefront of the news at the moment, I thought it would be good to highlight three important forthcoming conferences at which we will learn a great deal more about recent and potential events: 1. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 Next week is the annual EGU meeting in Vienna.  This will be the largest natural hazards meeting of the year, at which there …

I have finally managed to process the 2010 data in my database on lives lost from landslides around the world. This post presents a summary of the findings.

Part 8 of the occasional series on landslides as the subject of art. This edition features a painting of Goldau by JMW Turner, dating from 1843. It shows the aftermath of the September 1806 catastrophic landslide that destroyed the village.