Last weekend we chartered a helicopter to fly over the mid-Atlantic ridge in Iceland. This post displays some of the photographs.

High quality images and a video have emerged of two fatal coal mine landslides – one in China and one in the Philippines. Together they claimed 15 lives.

Landslides are a major problem along roads in high mountain areas. This is illustrated using an example from rural Nepal, in which the construction of a rural road has induced multiple landslides, threatening the local communities.

Heavy rainfall falling onto saturated ground across the UK is triggering more landslides today

A selection of landslides triggered by the recent uusually heavy rainfall across the UK

Three examples of boulders on the move in the last ten days or so, one from the UK and two from Switzerland

A new paper by Kremer et al. (2012) documents a landslide induced tsunami in Lake Geneva in AD563. The modelled wave was 8 km high when it inundated the city.

Landslides caused by heavy rainfall have killed at least 27 people in Sikkim, N. India

A brief report on the 1985 Xintan landslide in China

An EERI report is now available on the Sikkim earthquake. Landslides caused immense damage, but are absent from the leassons learnt!