The BBC is carrying some interesting footage of soldiers creating a channel across a landslide deposit. This can be seen here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7421263.stm The video is at the bottom of the page. It is worth a look. The video shows soldiers digging a channel through what is apparently a landslide deposit. I am not sure which landslide this is or even what the channel is to achieve. It could be that …

NASA has now released new images collected by the FORMOSAT-2 satellite of one of the lakes forming near to Beichuan in Sichuan behind the landslide dam shown in this post (click on the image for a better view).The first image shows a reach of the river upstream of the dam after the earthquake (on May 14th) but before the lake really started to form. The second image shows the lake …

An update on the 19 July 2023 Irshalwadi landslide in India and the 20 July 2023 debris flow at Ungar in Bhutan

In California a major landslide has occurred in Rolling Hills Estates, in Los Angeles County, reportedly damaging 12 houses.

On 4 July 2023 a large garbage dump landslide occurred in Naucalpan in Mexico, burying four people. One person remains missing.

The 27 June 2023 landslide at Miansi, Sichuan Province, China, which is reported to have killed at least seven people.

The 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide in Switzerland, which killed three people and destroyed 11 houses.

A stunning satellite image has been captured by Planet of the 1.2 million cubic metre 15 June 2023 landslide at Brienz-Brinzauls.

Overnight on 15/16 June 2023, a major landslide has occurred at Brienz-Brinzauls in Switzerland.

A new paper in the journal NHESS (Tamburini-Beliveau et al. 2023) has measured ground work instability at the Cóndor Cliff dam in Argentina.