The remarkable slope failures in the sediments at Lake Condit in Washington State USA, which were caught on video, illustrate the processes associated with slope failure during rapid draw-down.

An update on the situation at Attabad, using new satellite data collected by NASA

Two new landslide videos, including an amazing pulsing debris flow

News of two valley-blocking landslides – Attabad in Pakistan and a possible earthquake triggered event in Costa Rica

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

As I noted in my previous post, we are now just entering the global landslide season.  In the last week there has been a marked increase in significant landslides in the Northern Hemisphere.  Clearly, during the summer I won’t be highlighting the vast majority of those that occur, but thought it would be interesting just to draw attention to just a few of those that have happened in the last …

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

A link to the paper and powerpoint presentation for my talk on the Attabad landslide at the Geohazards 5 conference in Kelowna, Canada today.

A brief article highlighting both the ongoing hazards from the Attabad landslide in Pakistan and a major earthquake in the Himalayas

A pdf file of the presentation that I will give today entitled: Climate Change in Gilgit-Baltistan: impacts on humans and hazards.