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.

A series of reports on the level of life risk from rockfalls in the Port Hills area of Christchurch in New Zealand has now been released by the council

A neat video of the collapse of the west rim of the Halema’uma’u volcanic vent

Excellent new photos and an aerial video of the recent fall on the White Cliffs of Dover

A brief comparison of the recent chalk cliff rockfall in Dover with similar events in the literature

Startling images of a fatal rockfall from a 200 tonne boulder in France last week

An interesting video of a controlled blast to manage a rockfall hazard in France

As a bit of light-hearted relief from the Philippines and Papua New Guinea landslides, here are two interesting landslide items. First, with a hat-tip to Greg Springer, there is a new landslide video on Youtube.  It is another good one (despite the music): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Px-73K_4SU According to the Youtube page “The landslide occurred summer 2011 in Athens County, Ohio during construction of a new road.” I will update the ultimate landslide …

As AGU 2011 draws to a close (and I still have some blog posts to write about the meeting), I need to try to catch up on a substantial backlog of landslide news.  So, to start off, Monica Gowan from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch has sent these two pictures of the rockfalls as they occurred in the Sumner area of New Zealand on 13th June.  Please note that …

A spectacular new video has appeared of a rockfall onto the Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand.