Flow from the mining landslide at Pau Branco The mining landslide at Pau Branco caused a significant release of mine waste, which appears to have flowed into the water retention structure below.  This image, from the Observatório da Mineração, shows the flow path:- . As the image shows, the landslide overtopped the retaining structure, which remained essentially intact (note the superficial erosion on either side of the dam abutments).  The …

On 8 January 2022 a significant landslide occurred at the Pau Branco iron ore mine in Brazil, operated by the French company Vallourec.

On 12 December 2021 a large landslide affected the village of San Isidro in La Peca, Amazonas, Peru

The Mira Mar landslide in Albany, Australia continues to move, causing extensive damage to a number of houses. Two properties will now be demolished.

Over the last few days new sets of images have been posted online of the enormous impact of the landslides that affected parts of British Columbia a week ago, caused by an exceptional rainfall event. 

An Indian government official claimed yesterday that the Char Dham highway project in India is not responsible for causing landslides. This is demonstrably incorrect.

Landslides from the 14 November 2021 M=6.3 earthquake near to Fin in Iran

On 2 November 2021 a landslide at Mallama in Nariño province, Colombia killed 17 people.

A new paper in the journal Landslides (Liu et al. 2021) describes the complex 5 April 2021 Tiejiangwan landslide in Sichuan Province, China, which killed three people.

In the Mira Mar suburb of the city of Albany in the southern part of Australia a landslide is slowly destroying a number of houses