Exceptional monsoon rainfall across Central China has caused very extensive damage, including many landslides, in the areas affected by the 2008 earthquake

A talk from the Geographical Association annual conference on future losses from natural hazards, focusing on storms, floods, earthquakes and volcanoes

Goran Ekstrom and Colin Stark have today published a paper in Science on the detection of large landslides using seismic data. This provides the potential to create a catalogue of these events and to analyse, for the first time, their dynamics

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

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.

Commentary on the UK Government policy on humanitarian assistence, released today.

Apologies for the low rate of posting this week – it has been a busy one!  These are the key stories that have caught my eye: 1. A Congressional landslide briefing, USA Thanks to Lee Allison (check out his terrific, pioneering Arizona Geology blog) for the heads-up on this one.  On 21st June an event was held in Washington to provide a public briefing on landslides as a stealth hazard.  …

Dave reviews the UK Government plans, announced yesterday, for a refocussing of the humanitarian assistence budget, which emphasises effective disaster risk reduction and response.

A discussion about mining-related landslides in Mindanao in the Philippines, including a discussion of the difficulties of reducing the losses associated with them.