Monsoon 2014 in South Asia is late this year, but the 16 landslide deaths overnight in Nepal suggest that it is now having an impact.

Details of three forthcoming public lectures that I am presenting or chairing, in Leeds, Durham and Cockermouth

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

We have used a new model developed at Durham to generate an initial map of the likely landslides triggered by the Iran earthquake this week

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

. Lynn Highland, a Geographer with the Landslide Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is joining the USGS Library in a project to compile an archive of copyright free, high-resolution (if possible) photographs of all aspects of landslides. These contributed photos would be archived permanently with, and obtainable through, the USGS Library website, which can be accessed here: http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/index.html The photographs archived at the library are public domain and …

In the last few weeks there has been an unusual amount of landslide activity worldwide.  This is just a few of the more interesting events, there are many more that I’ll try to cover in the next few days.  Thanks to everyone who has pointed them out to e, and apologies if I have not acknowledged your contribution or covered your story yet.  Please do keep them coming! 1. The …

Impressive images of lateral spreads caused by yesterday’s earthquake in Burma (Myanmar)

I have now been collecting data on landslide fatalities for ten years. In that time I have recorded almost 90,000 landslide-induced deaths.

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