A report on the first landslide session from AGU 2011.

A brief report of the final collapse of the San Pedro landslide in California.

Brief report on a coastal landslide affecting a road in San Pedro, California

More information has emerged about the cliff collapse video from Cormwall, SW England

Surely the greatest ever rock cliff collapse video!

The following video was apparently shot in Barnaul in southern Russia this week.  Based upon the Google translation it shows a progressive landslide triggered by a leaking storm drain or sewer pipe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ev1mdvmmZw It is also shown below – skip forward to the 5 minute 15 second point in the film: Does anyone have any more information?    

An overview of the Springhill landslide in Utah, which is progressively destroying a residential neighbourhood in a suburb outside Salt Lake City.

An examination of the key reasons why a comparatively small (mw = 6.3) earthquake has been responsible for such high losses in Christchurch, New Zealand

Thanks to my former student Kurtis Garbutt for the heads up on this one.  The video below shows the progressive development of a road in Thailand.  I suspect that this initiated as a culvert failure, with multiple collapses due to undercutting: The final frames of the video show an overview of the site.  Check out where the people are standing! As an aside, Kurtis also runs a very interesting blog …

Apologies to all who emailed and left messages over the weekend requesting updates.  FWO data collected at 8 am on Saturday suggests that the rate of flow was 124.6 cumecs, whilst the Pamir Times reported yesterday that it was 131.7 cumecs.  If so, the discharge time graph looks like this: Thus, the discharge is apparently stabilising.  Various media reports from the site itself suggest that downward erosion of the channel …