I will be giving a public lecture entitled “The Hazards of Geography: Earthquakes, Floods and Landslides” on 3rd April

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

A new Geological Survey of India report describes some of the landslides triggered by the September 2011 Sikkim earthquake in India and Nepal

Summary: This post presents for the first time NASA satellite images of the earthquake-affected area around Gangtok in Sikkim.

Latest information on the earthquake in the Himalayas, plus an earthquake in Guatemala and landslides in China and Italy

An update on reported losses from the earthquake in the Himalayas yesterday. Landslides are clearly a major problem, and further heavy rainfall is forecast.

At 12:40 UT (18:40 local time) today an earthquake struck Sikkim in northern India, producing significant shaking in Nepal, India and, probably Bhutan.  According to the USGS information page for the event, this is a magnitude 6.9 event at a depth of about 20 km, though note that this will probably change slightly as better data become available.  The epicentre is located as shown on the map below: Although this …

A brief review of news of landslides in China

Dave explores trends in landslide occurrence on Nepal for the last 30 years, showing an apparent link between rainfall and the recorded numbers of landslides.

A brief review of 201 forecasts for large-scale weather phenomena that are associated with landslides during the northern hemisphere summer